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Dec 2022
22m 48s

What if the World Stopped Shopping?

J. David Stein
About this episode

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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