This book is framed by the realisation that consumerism – that is, the high consumption way of life which defines the most ‘developed’ industrial societies – has no future. Consumer lifestyles have no future because our planet simply cannot sustain the weight of their energy and resource intensive burdens. Earth’s ecosystems are trembling under the weight of one or two billion high-end consumers, so it is nothing short of delusional to think that our planet could sustain four or six or eight or ten billion people living this way. There are limits to what Earth will tolerate....
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