• SituationCake
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    3 hours ago

    Watched the Buy Now documentary on Netflix. I don’t like the Netflix documentary style, but the message is still worth watching for. Am disgusted by how much waste we create. Not much we can do on an individual scale, and corporates and governments have no incentive to change anything. Consumption is profit. Economy above all else.

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      and yet it isn’t small purchases that improve our lives but co-operative purchases like government infrastructure and services that do

      another thing is that consumerism is subtle. No one who has an out of fashion kitchen remodelled and gets new appliances thinks their purchases count towards environmental degradation. It’s just the people with 4 cars.