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Ce-am fi putut vedea dacă Shōgun ar fi avut un sequel despre shogunatul Tokugawa (aka. Toranaga): o cultură a sustenabilităţii până-n pânzele albe.

"The city of Edo was home to over 1,000 refurbishing and recycling businesses. Everything was collected for reuse – the drippings of candle wax were remoulded, old metal pots were melted down, human hair was sold to wig makers. Modular house design meant that floorboards could easily be removed, planed down and used again in new buildings. Samurai down on their luck repaired umbrellas. The leftover straw from growing rice was used for making sandals and rope, wrapping up household goods, and finally as fertiliser and fuel.
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The Edo period remains one of the best historical examples of what a large-scale regenerative economy operating within safe ecological limits might look like (there are others, such as the "ancestral circular economy" of precolonial Hawaii). It was, writes environmental scientist Eiichiro Ochiai, a "model for spaceship Earth" that took "every possible step to maintain the principles of zero-waste, zero-emission, long before such terms came to be appreciated"."
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20240703-what-the-japanese-edo-period-can-teach-us-about-today
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