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"Much of what they sell will end up in a landfill within a year and was manufactured by invisible workers laboring under poor conditions, enabled by bizarre trade loopholes without which $5 products shipped 8000 miles to customers’ doors don’t make any sense."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/the-troubling-triumph-of-the-supercheap-gadget.html
Over-consumption of cheap products designed for the dump are a far greater threat to our environment than CO2.
Over-consumption is the meta crisis.
@gerrymcgovern @fifilamoura Yup, overconsumption is the problem precisely because we’ve made progress on reducing emissions in other areas. I recently read that if demand for cheap plastic trinkets wasn’t booming, global demand for oil would have already begun to fall in absolute terms.
@gerrymcgovern Overproduction of all kinds of useless rubbish is the problem. Consumption is only possible because of production. If you don't want people to consume that shit, stop its production.
@gerrymcgovern
A post I put up last year about the Church of Immaculate Consumption
https://toad.social/@ArrowbearMoore/110726483951869752
@gerrymcgovern my grandma had a sampler on the wall that said “use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without”.