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If the economic system does not support this construction method that is socially just, ecological.., healthy, then this economic system has to be changed, because capitalism is not a force of nature. It is created by humans, and we can always abolish it.

— Anna Heringer Gespräch mit den Lehmbauexperten (2017)

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