Taking a pill for a headache may seem like the most natural thing in the world, but prescription drugs are forcing their way into every corner of our lives and environment, says John Naish
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Britain has a serious and unnecessary drug habit, but the implications of our pill-forevery-ill culture go far beyond the adverse effects on human health. The complex chemicals in modern pharmaceuticals, as well as the manufacturing processes involved, leave a massive industrial footprint on the natural world that is largely ignored by both science and government.
Drugs on tap John Naish | 30th April 2009 News Drugs Consumerism Pills Prescription Drugs Drugs Urban Living Consumerism Drugs Health Pollution Science And Technology New Picture 1.jpg Britain has a …
What on earth are we thinking when we go into shops and buy lots of pointless stuff we just don’t need? John Naish says it’s not so much what’s on our minds, but which brain we use when we spend
Oops, wrong brain John Naish | 28th January 2009 News Consumerism Brain Evolution Instinct Impulse Buy Mental Health Consumerism Health Wrong_Brain_MAIN.jpg What on earth are we thinking when we go …
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.
Born to Shop? John Naish | 1st January 2001 News Consumerism Evolution Sufficency Consumerism Consumerism Science And Technology Society Green Living_45.jpg Ever since the 1970s we have lived with …