Our economies and our jobs depend on mass consumption, argues Oliver Williams. If we all consume less to save the planet, the economy will tank and millions will lose their jobs. The answer is not frugality, but reductions in population.
… Anti-consumerism is not enough Oliver Williams | … 2014 Comment Green Economy Economics Society Consumerism nanyuki-market-kenya.jpg Our … of green jobs, those who advocate anti-consumerism alone as the solution to …
Last month my friend Satish Kumar said in Sustained magazine that the happiest people are those who live close to the land and use their hands – craftspeople and farmers. As a naturalist, keen gardener and soon-to-be vegetable-plot devotee, this resonates with me.
… The end of consumerism Jules Peck | 16th April 2009 Comment Consumerism Consumption Consumerism Climate Change Society …
from the pulpit
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
I'm the Reverend Billy.
… Billy Bill Talen | 1st December 2004 Comment Consumerism Fundamentalism Advertising Products Consumerism Politics And Economics Society … hammer-my-brain Fundamentalism. Double Consumerism, our souls choked by tinsel, is a …
The bulk of our motives for buying green are selfish, say psychologists. So would appealing to social positioning help shift behaviours better than moralising?
… News Green Living Psychology Society Green Consumerism Consumption prius.jpg Sales of the … book, Requiem for a Species . He says green consumerism has failed to make significant … nature of consumer lifestyles, green consumerism threatens to entrench the very …
Author Clive Hamilton on why we've left it too late to stop climate change, his horror over geoengineering and the urgent need to become citizens rather than consumers
… TL: You talk about the failure of green consumerism, do you think our desire to … used it. People are afraid of change and use consumerism in our types of affluent societies … I don't think we can. However, I don't think consumerism is essential to human nature. Most …
We interrupt our regular programming for a moral advisory…
‘Endangerment of life is ignored when it is real, but sold in bulk when it’s a good enough apocalypse for a movie’
… Talen | 1st March 2005 Comment Apocalypse Consumerism Products Shopping Invisible Article Consumerism Politics And Economics Society … – easier. This is where we must admit that CONSUMERISM IS THE DEVIL! Endangerment of life …
As public spaces become blighted by the £18 billion global outdoors advertising industry, community groups are fighting back to reclaim both ad-free areas or use billboards in a socially beneficial way
… Society Politics & Economics Advert Activist Consumerism Junk Food Greenpeace Amnesty … warned that climate change and a culture of consumerism were the greatest threats to the … and there is no doubt that advertising drives consumerism.. Emeritus professor of …
Ever since the 1970s we have lived with the growing awareness that our ecosystem is fragile and the perpetual exploitation of our natural resources impossible. By the late 1980s, even The Sun newspaper had its own green correspondent. Everything we buy, use and throw away has an impact somewhere on the ecological continuum, and nowadays the most bullish Western consumers’ consciences are regularly punctured by shards of eco-worry. We also increasingly realise that working ever harder for more possessions, more options, more stuff, doesn’t tend to make us more content.
… to Shop? John Naish | 1st January 2001 News Consumerism Evolution Sufficency ConsumerismConsumerism Science And Technology Society …
Worldwatch's influential State of the World 2010 report tells us why we need more stories addressing climate change and fewer shocking facts
… reversal of thrift values and an explosion of consumerism that ignited in the United States … the broadcast of messages that ran counter to consumerism's values. And the emergence of … to play a role in the transition from consumerism to sustainability, they will need …
Obsessed with technology, we have overlooked something critical that lurks in our institutionalised notion of sustainability
… is at risk of being abducted by consumerism, the same philosophy that … the angel of technology, and the spirit of consumerism, we will buy our way out of … for. Beginnings How did it come to pass that consumerism abducted sustainability? Though …
Mark Anslow, Laura Sevier, Dan Box and Matilda Lee profile 10 visionaries with 10 big ideas for a better world.
… Transport Law Agriculture Business Energy Consumerism Community Leadership Campaigns … transport, agriculture, business, consumerism or energy, each has dared to think … George Marshall (Energy), Duane Elgin (Consumerism). …
Who needs nature when you can manufacture a superior, ersatz substitute?
… | 1st April 2009 News Artificial Reality Consumerism Philosophy Consumerism Community Society Archive_180.jpg … executed picture, a satirical commentary on consumerism, and an aside on how easy it is to …
Jonathon Porritt, chairman of the government’s Sustainable Development Commission, has called for the UK citizens to shop less or ‘the planet will go pop.’
… or the planet gets it 10th April 2007 News Consumerism Consumption Jonathon Porritt Carbon Dioxide Global Warming Consumerism Society News web pic 2_14.jpg … he added. Porritt’s attack’s on ‘ethical consumerism’ will anger many who believe that …
Last week's 'War on Waste' - throwaway coffee cups were the deserving target - was an exemplar of effective single-issue campaigning by Hugh Fearnley Whittingstall. But the answers to our waste problems go way beyond recycling. We must begin to plan a societal transition to a post-consumer culture of caring, sharing, and knowing when we have enough.
… Sam Earle | 3rd August 2016 Comment Waste Consumerism Recycling Economics Green Economy … and recycle. The real problem is rampant consumerism This definition leaves us with … and culture whose life-blood is rampant consumerism. And waste is an intrinsic design …
The editor of the influential Worldwatch 'State of the World' report on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability
… on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability Matilda Lee: … at a political advocacy level. ML: Western consumerism has become an almost unstoppable …
Duane Elgin is a self-described ‘evolutionary activist’ who, since the 1960s, has explored the practical and philosophical meaning of simplicity.
… The Ecologist | 1st April 2009 News Society Consumerism Waste Simplicity Visionaries … 27 years in the making. A key theme is that ‘consumerism is a rational response to living … work you do and in the community… whereas consumerism says “how big is my pile of …
Gard Binney examines the need for an alternative to the dominant development paradigm of globalisation.
… | 11th June 2000 News Globalisation Economy Consumerism Developing Nation Growing The … standard of living among the new converts to consumerism. For the cross and sword of the … already addicted to fossil fuels and wasteful consumerism to adopt a truly renewable …
One of Canada’s most well known photographers, Edward Burtynsky, has travelled the world documenting the link between nature and industry through his large-format photos of nature transformed through industry; the ‘manufactured landscapes’ of mines, dams, and factories.
… Manufactured Landscapes Film Industry China Consumerism Companies Society … all responsible for': the connection between consumerism and the landscapes loses some of … what Burtynsky describes as the seduction of consumerism? The film chooses to emphasise the …
What motivates people to act? Tom Crompton, WWF's point man on behaviour change, believes he has the answers. And they go against the grain of conventional campaigning...
… Campaigning Activism WWF Climate Change Green Consumerism 1tom-crompton.jpg What motivates … or against them is the difficult bit. Green consumerism is a cul-de-sac. As a strategy for … on the best ways to transform cultures from consumerism to sustainability …
Happiness is... Climate change isn’t just a threat. It’s an opportunity for us to live happier, more fulfilling lives.
… | 1st February 2007 News Happiness Lifestyle Consumerism Global Warming Climate Change Society Culture Mental Health Consumerism Climate Change Society …