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The Day the World Stops Shopping.

I’m reading The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves. Fascinating. Addressing consumption would do more for the environment, and do it more reliably, than “green” technological solutions. Not a message many of us want to hear, I’m afraid.
One thing that’s really struck me so far is how rich-world consumption has exploded in recent years. The book is built around a thought experiment: what happens if the world cuts its consumption by 25%. Sounds radical, and the cold-turkey effects would be huge. But it would only take us back to a level of consumption that many of us can remember from earlier in our lifetimes (the 1970s or so), when we didn’t feel any poorer than we do now.
Thought-provoking, engagingly written, strongly recommended.