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I've been told that today is Buy Nothing Day. I'm not normally a consumer whore or anything, but I think I will celebrate it by being one. You know, just to be contrary. Also, I've already bought a coffee -- at the Second Cup, no less! It annoys me that a lot of people think that Adbusters' notions of switching one sort of consumer capitalism to a "better" consumer capitalism is actual activism.

The magazine has very pretty pictures, though.

In other news, career criminal and whiny baby Lord Black is asking for his Canadian citizenship back. I guess maybe he shouldn't have said those nasty things about us when he renounced it in the first place. Excuse me for a sec...

AHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Oh man, I hope they give his citizenship to the poorest Haïtian refugee they can possibly find -- preferably a poor Haïtian communist refugee. Who has converted to Islam. And is gay. And drives a cab. That'd be the best thing ever.

Date: 2005-11-25 05:14 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] ironed_orchid
the average consumer, given the current economic structure, is going to go with cheap and dirty over expensive and clean

Absolutely, which makes ethical consumerism a privilege for those who can afford to spend more money. Which is fucked up, because being ethical should not be the privilege of the rich.

I do try to buy organic and fair trade products whenever I can, but often the discrepancy in price between them and 'conventional' products is simply not economically viable on a small budget. as for household recycling etc, people will do it if councils make it easy to separate recyclables, but a household doesn't produce anything near the waste that a company does.

I remember [livejournal.com profile] springheel_jack writing a good entry some time ago about the rift between hard core environmentalists and socialism, which was very interesting and I think drew attention to many of the ideological differences. However, to be really concerned about the welfare of human beings should include a concern for the environment because a healthy environment makes for healthier humans.

Date: 2005-11-25 05:24 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] morgoid.livejournal.com
I agree. I think that's why anarchism wouldn't work, ultimately. If businesses could get away selling biohazardous carcinogens as shampoo, they'd do it if the payoff was good enough.

But then, I'm also of the opinion that corporations would flay babies alive as tributes to Satan if it would guarantee profits.

Actually, not just facesless corprorations. I'm pretty sure there are just plain assholes out there who would too (as long as they didn't have to do it themselves that is).

Boy, I'm sure down on peoples!

Date: 2005-11-25 06:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] frandroid.livejournal.com
George Monbiot had an article recently about how some industrial leaders were more or less begging the government to introduce more environmental legislation; by levelling the playing field for everyone, companies don't get penalized for spending extra money on environmental measures.

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