OUR CONSUMER CULTURE IS OUT OF CONTROL. Once, we
shopped to buy what we needed, period. Now
that we
don't need much, we shop for other reasons:
to impress
each other, to fill a void, to kill time. A
mere 20% of the
earth's population uses 80% of its natural
resources. Our
overconsumption is killing the planet.
BUY NOTHING DAY is a
simple idea with deep
implications. It forces us
to think about the
"shop-till-you-drop"
imperative and its
effects on the rest of the
world. On Buy Nothing Day
enjoy a break from the shopping frenzy.
Relish your
power as a consumer to change the economic
environment.
BUY NOTHING DAY: NOVEMBER 24, 2000
http://adbusters.org/campaigns/bnd/
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N i c k B l o m l e y
Associate Professor
Department of Geography
Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, B.C. V5A 1S6,
CANADA
(604) 291-3713 (tel)
(604) 291-5841 (fax)
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