The Day the World Stops Shopping 9781444000528 Combining first-hand experience with twenty

Combining first-hand experience with twenty years of studying the choices people have made under the most extreme pressure

Afrikaans literary icon CJ Langenhoven died suddenly

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The Day the World Stops Shopping 9781444000528 Combining first-hand experience with twentyWe are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shopped before. And whilst we can do it more responsibly, the scale of our consumption remains the biggest factor in the ruination of the planet. Yet our reliance on stuff continues to grow. But what would our world look like if we stopped? Would civilization collapse? Would the planet's ecology be reborn? What