Meanwhile, humans' innate tendency to aquire things has assumed a central position in contemporary culture. Acquisitiveness had survival value at an earlier stage in human evolution
"Humans are inherently selfish because survival of the fittest." Fuck you. This is both wrong on its face and also extremely damaging. And also super fucking common. This is secular Original Sin shit. This is late-stage neoliberal brain worms. This is made up and also useless to understand our collective problems and think up solutions. This is eco-fascist rethoric. If you believe this, then the logical endpoint for you is extermination of humans. After all, we are just locusts with access to fossil fuels and will never be anything else.
Would it surprise you to know she mentions "some anthropological research" that says owning more things meant more fucking mating at some unspecified moment in our evolutionary past, but doesn't actually cite said research?
I bet Margaret Robertson was one of the assholes saying "humans are the real plague" during 2020
