24th November 2023
Black Friday seems a good day to reflect on what it might mean to be a good consumer. Certainly shopping ethically – https://greentau.org/2023/11/07/counting-on-day-1-210/ – but maybe also consuming more slowly. How often do we need a new dress or new duvet set? Maybe consuming more locally so that we support the local economy – buying from the local bookshop not Amazon, the local green grocer not Tesco’s. Maybe for some of us it means consuming less. Maybe it means campaigning so that others can afford to consume more so as to live in comfort.
For more thoughts – “Sustainable production and consumption must therefore replace undifferentiated economic growth as the goal of 21st-century political economy. And making the case for this means challenging the belief that sustainable consumption will always involve sacrifice, rather than improve wellbeing.”
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The Green Tau 