Plenty, not confrontation, is what vanquishes the overconsumption monster

Evidence

But I noticed something in the background of this story different from any Windigo tale I’d ever heard: You can smell flowers. There was no snow, no blizzard; the only ice was in the heart of the Windigo. Nanabozho had chosen to hunt down the monster in the summer. The warriors paddled across ice-free lakes to the island where the Windigo had his summer refuge. The Windigo is most powerful in the Hungry Time, in winter. With the warm breezes his power wanes. … Summer in our language is niibin—the time of plenty—and it was in niibin that Nanabozho faced down the Windigo and defeated him. Here is the arrow that weakens the monster of overconsumption, a medicine that heals the sickness: its name is plenty. In winter, when scarcity is at its zenith, the Windigo rages beyond control, but when abundance reigns the hunger fades away and with it the power of the monster. — Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass, 1389

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Sahlins’s ‘original affluent society’ point in the very next paragraph; also connects to Eco-Justice’s core critique that scarcity is manufactured, not natural. — connects to: Capitalism structurally requires excess for some and deprivation for others — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 1094; Overabundance and deprivation form one causal system, not an administrative problem — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1568

Broader Connections

• Capitalism structurally requires excess for some and deprivation for others #qualifies (0.80) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 1094
• Overabundance and deprivation form one causal system, not an administrative problem #complicates (0.75) — Dirk Braunstein, Adorno’s Critique of Political Economy, 1568