A friend forwarded a link to a cute, well-made video online that talks about the evils of consumerism. While I don’t know how much faith to put into the statistics that I heard (that, by the way, were positively scary), the general concepts were very cogently presented.
Bottom line: it makes a pretty strong case for us to stop buying as much as we do. The question I have is if all the jobs that drive this consumer economy go away, what will the repercussions be for all those people who work those jobs now. We may have to go back to being farmers of own land and weavers of our own cloth. I previously felt that Gandhi wasn’t the most astute economist. Perhaps he was, from a more holistic, planetary perspective.
Oh, here’s the link if you’d like to check it out:
