Deepali

“It's like pollution, it feels like visual mental pollution," she said. "Let's say you go to The Gap online and you look for a pair of trousers. It's not just that The Gap will follow you around on your browser for the next week. It's that those pairs of trousers that you've thought you might want -- and then decided you didn't want -- are stalking you. You're literally being chased through the internet by products that you are trying not to buy. They're trying to wear you down and make you buy them.”
― J. B. Mackinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping

“I gave a magic wand to Amanda Rinderle of Tuckerman & Co., maker of probably the world's most sustainable dress shirts. If she could use it, I asked, to change one thing in order to help create an economy of better but less, what would that one thing be?...she would make prices tell the whole truth.

Right now, prices reflect demand for goods and services and the costs of producing them: materials, energy, manufacturing, shipping. Mostly excluded are the consequences of production and consumption, from pollution to soil erosion to carbon emissions to habitat loss and onward to the human health effects of all these, the incredible destruction wrought by wildfires, floods and storms in the age of climate chaos, the burden of two billion tonnes of garbage each year, and the incalculable moral injury of driving million-year-old species into extinction.”
― J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

“The most savage of consumerism's ironies is that those who consume the least offer suffer far more of consumption's harms than those who consume the most.”
― J.B. MacKinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

“I have this slightly woolly hope that creativity itself is the next thing," Turner said. He imagines a world in which we form our identities around creative pursuits and self-expressions, letting go of the "anchor of brands" to express who we are.”
― J. B. Mackinnon, The Day the World Stops Shopping