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Environment & Energy

Nihil

(13,508 posts)

8. I beg to disagree

Reply to AverageJoe90 (Reply #5)

Thu Oct 4, 2012, 04:21 AM

Oct 2012

Do people retrain locusts or kill them?

Fewer consumers -> less consumed

If this could be done purely voluntarily then it would have happened already.

Looks like "we" have chosen the option to consume as much as possible
in the time before the bug spray turns up.

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Why “Green” Consumer Choices Can’t Win Climate Justice [View all] marmar Sep 2012 OP

K&R cprise Sep 2012 #1

Sadly, I have to agree. AverageJoe90 Oct 2012 #2

Green Consumerism: The Ruse of Recycling Viking12 Oct 2012 #3

Problems created by a consumer society XemaSab Oct 2012 #4

Perhaps so. But neither will population reduction, as some may wish. nt AverageJoe90 Oct 2012 #5

I beg to disagree Nihil Oct 2012 #8

You would think so, but would that stop the polluters? AverageJoe90 Oct 2012 #9

Republicans think they can clean up the environment by selecting the right laundry detergent Kolesar Oct 2012 #6

Why what individuals do matters. bloom Oct 2012 #7