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COPY LINK TO DOWNLOAD *********************************** https://hura2misifoya-foya.blogspot.com/?update=0062856022 *********************************** The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves strong Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planetbut can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping. strong em We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. em The economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment, bankruptcy, and home foreclosure.The planet says we consume too much: in America, we burn the earth’s resources at a rate five times faster than it can regenerate. And despite efforts to “green” our consumptionby recycling, increasing energy efficiency, or using solar powerwe have yet to see a decline in global carbon emissions.Addressing this paradox headon, acclaimed journalist J. B. MacKinnon asks, em What would really happen if we simply stopped shopping? em Is there a way to reduce our consumption to earthsaving levels without triggering economic collapse? At first this question took him around the world, seeking answers from America’s bigbox stores to the huntergatherer cultures of Namibia to communities in Ecua
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The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves
strong Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the planetbut can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book, journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without shopping. strong em We can’t stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma. em The economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leads to widespread unemployment, bankruptcy, and home foreclosure.The planet says we consume too much: in America, we burn the earth’s resources at a rate five times faster than it can regenerate. And despite efforts to “green” our consumptionby recycling, increasing energy efficiency, or using solar powerwe have yet to see a decline in global carbon emissions.Addressing this paradox headon, acclaimed journalist J. B. MacKinnon asks, em What would really happen if we simply stopped shopping? em Is there a way to reduce our consumption to earthsaving levels without triggering economic collapse? At first this question took him around the world, seeking answers from America’s bigbox stores to the huntergatherer cultures of Namibia to communities in Ecua
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