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The day the world stops shopping

The day the world stops shopping

DAISY Sound Recording 2021

In a brilliant work of imaginative nonfiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks, what would happen - to our economy, our ecology, our products, ourselves - if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might actually want to live in? "We can't stop shopping. And yet we must. This is the consumer dilemma." The planet says we consume too much: In North America, we burn the Earth's resources at a rate five times faster th...