Tag: anticonsumerism
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Alternatives to Black Friday, or: What to Do Instead of “Going Shopping” (or “Buying Stuff”)
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You’ve probably never wrestled somebody for a 50-inch plasma-screen television. But this is an image emblematic of Black Friday, demonstrating the damaging behaviours and values such events can incite. Black Friday is a festival of senseless consumerism which helps rocket the planet past its annual Overshoot Day months early (the date at which “[our] demand…
