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Tim Jackson (on consumerism, in a nutshell)

“We are encouraged to spend money we don’t have, on things we don’t need, to create impressions that don’t last, on people we don’t care about.”

Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity Without Growth – Economics for a Finite Planet. He was speaking at the United Nations in New York, possibly in 2009. I believe he has absolutely nailed modern consumer culture.