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Overpopulation of the earth is a major problem on its own, but it also leads directly to other serious environmental impacts. One of those issues is overconsumption, especially of single-use products that damage the environment, slow the ability of the...
by populationmediacenter
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on Tue Apr 09, 2024 at 11:58 AM PDT
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There’s a new American Christmas tradition: sit a read a book for most of the day. As in, plop on a comfy chair, chomp on snacks, take only bathroom breaks, and read for seven hours. It’s a gift we can give ourselves, and people are always giving away...
by The Tell with Christine Axsmith
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on Fri Dec 29, 2023 at 01:30 PM PST
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In a recent survey by the National Retail Federation, it was revealed that consumers plan to spend $42 more on gifts in 2023 during the Christmas holiday season compared to the previous year. The total spending on Christmas gifts in the United States...
by SninkyPoo
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on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 11:27 AM PST
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Welcome to the New Day Cafe! This is an open thread.
Vox writer Izzie Ramirez recently took a look at contemporary manufacturing approaches and how the quality of new items continues to decline. ...
by samanthab
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on Mon Jan 09, 2023 at 07:30 AM PST
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It’s depressing how little most Americans know, and how little they want to know. The refusal to wear masks or get vaccinated is only one example. In the USA, more people believe in angels than in evolution. Nobody knows for sure if angels are real....
by AliceT4
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on Tue Sep 27, 2022 at 08:34 AM PDT
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We’ve been told it’s the things we have that make up our quality of life. That’s only part of the truth. We must have enough to eat and drink, and some place to get out of the weather. If we’re going to eat our food cooked, we need things to cook it...
by AliceT4
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on Wed Jun 01, 2022 at 08:59 AM PDT
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We were watching NBC nightly news, but it could have been any of the networks. They all cover the same stories in the same way. They went from the suffering women and children in Ukraine to a puff piece about women in cryptocurrency. The “reporter”...
by AliceT4
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on Sun Apr 10, 2022 at 10:06 AM PDT
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I received this bit of info yesterday which explains why so many people buy into the economics propaganda of big business. A lie is a lie even when it contains a fraction of truth. The idea is to create fear in consumers while at the same time playing...
by Ushka Waso
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on Sat Mar 05, 2022 at 03:48 AM PST
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This article originally appeared at TomDispatch.com. To receive TomDispatch in your inbox three times a week, click here. Yes, I still remember Christmas as a child. The tree, of course. The cotton under it for “snow” with little figures of skiers on...
by TomDispatch
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on Mon Dec 20, 2021 at 07:45 AM PST
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I should like to start this piece of personal observation with a disclaimer. I have no expertise in political science or economics. I have attempted in the past to read Marx’s Das Kapital and could never get beyond the first chapter. I found Keynes’s...
by bisleybum
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on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 07:17 AM PDT
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Greetings from Minneapolis MN.
In most cities that I visit, the local mall is just a place for me to hang out when it rains and hop on their wifi, as I tour the area’s museums, parks, etc. But in ...
by Lenny Flank
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on Wed Aug 11, 2021 at 12:28 PM PDT
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In opening Eric Dean Wilson’s book, “After Cooling: On Freon, Global Warming, and the Terrible Cost of Comfort,” I was prepared for a lot of data on how the Freon gas created a huge hole in our ozone layer and had threatened our human survival. But...
by Nickjlicata
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on Wed Jul 28, 2021 at 09:52 PM PDT
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People hang onto things – ideas as well as accumulation. I don’t like capitalism, I don’t like consumerism, and all the social training to buy more — both for yourself and gifts for others. For my first ACM, I would have expected I’d be writing about...
by stargaze
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on Sun Aug 01, 2021 at 02:57 PM PDT
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For Father’s Day, a lighter diary….
Indoctrination in the Cradle: A Brief Study of the Roots of American Consumerism
“Hush, Little Baby” is a traditional lullaby and a multi-...
by Rexxmama
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on Sun Jun 20, 2021 at 08:30 AM PDT
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“ The story of the Pilgrims and the Mayflower taught to every American child in every American school is less than half of the actual story. Obviously there are a lot of day to day details left ...
by NeverEverAgain
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on Sun Nov 22, 2020 at 03:00 PM PST
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t is also: Humanitarian Day, Museum Selfie Day, National Bagel Day, National Booch Day, National Hat Day, National Strawberry Ice Cream Day, National Fresh Squeezed Juice Day, Wikipedia Day, and ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Jan 15, 2020 at 06:06 AM PST
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I have written before about consumerism, over-consumption, how we got to this point and the environmental problems related thereto. Along the way I'm sure I and commentators have pointed out that ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Dec 04, 2019 at 06:06 AM PST
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If you’ve had it with consumerist, materialistic, colonialist holidays; if you are fed up with the celebration of genocide that we are supposed to be “thankful” for! If you want no more Black Fridays built on the pedestal of the enslavement of African...
by PennyUhuru
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on Fri Nov 29, 2019 at 12:37 PM PST
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Prefatory blah, blah: This column will e getting somewhat short shrift. It seems that I have become some sort of entropy attractor, or more than usual, at any rate. Way behind, way busy and ...
by enhydra lutris
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on Wed Oct 16, 2019 at 06:06 AM PDT
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Click this before reading on There are currently around a billion people without electricity with approximately ...
by Clive all hat no horse Rodeo
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on Tue Sep 24, 2019 at 06:00 PM PDT
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