Sustainable consumption plays a major role in the transition to a more sustainable society.The Netherlands Authority for Consumers & Markets
acm.nl/system/files/documents/guidelines-sustainability-claims_1.pdf
acm.nl/system/files/documents/guidelines-sustainability-claims_1.pdf
Obligatory hope to avert climate disaster, provides an excuse for inaction on a personal levelRemi Charron
resilience.org/stories/2021-03-11/misplaced-hope/
resilience.org/stories/2021-03-11/misplaced-hope/
The problem is that we do not often see the true ugliness of the consumer economy and so are not compelled to do much about it.
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
The distance between shopping malls and their associated mines, wells, corporate farms, factories, toxic dumps, and landfills, sometimes half a world away, dampens our perceptions that something is fundamentally wrong.
David OrrOrr, David. 1999. “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture, and the Pursuit of Happiness (Roger Rosenblatt, editor). Island Press, Washington, DC
The most important thing you can do to fight climate change: talk about it.Climate Scientist Katharine Hayhoe
digitalprojects.davidson.edu/earthday2020/climate-change/
digitalprojects.davidson.edu/earthday2020/climate-change/
If the planet is not heating up, why are the oceans getting warmer?David Lewis