George Monbiot: Plastic Soup
The problem is not plastic. It is consumerism. Do you believe in miracles? If so, please form an orderly queue. Plenty of people imagine we can carry on as we … Continue reading
September 14, 2018 · Leave a comment
Emrys Westacott: The Simple Life
Why less is more — more or less. The good life is the simple life. Among philosophical ideas about how we should live, this one is a hardy perennial; from … Continue reading
January 21, 2018 · 1 Comment
Elizabeth Currid-Halkett: Conspicuous consumption is over. It’s all about intangibles now
In 1899, the economist Thorstein Veblen observed that silver spoons and corsets were markers of elite social position. In Veblen’s now famous treatise The Theory of the Leisure Class, he … Continue reading
January 6, 2018 · Leave a comment
Chris Hedges: Faces of Pain, Faces of Hope
ANDERSON, Ind.—It was close to midnight, and I was sitting at a small campfire with Sybilla and Josh Medlin in back of an old warehouse in an impoverished section of … Continue reading
October 10, 2017 · 1 Comment
