What if the World Stopped Shopping?

How to solve the conundrum that consumption reductions lead to economic disasters while benefiting the environment.

Topics covered include:

• Why consumption, fossil fuel usage, and carbon emissions keep growing
• How fossil fuel consumption goes well beyond heating and transportation uses but is tied to agriculture, steel, and cement production
• The four times global consumption fell and the dire economic consequences that resulted
• How the world is consuming twice as many resources as the planet can sustain
• How the economy could still grow while reducing the environmental impact

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Show Notes

How the World Really Works: The Science Behind How We Got Here and Where We’re Going by Vaclav Smil

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by J.B. Mackinnon

Global Footprint Network

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