50 Posts From ‘Anti Consumption’ That Show Exactly What’s Wrong With The World (New Pics)

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Move to an European country. I have many problems with my country but public transit and walkable cities AREN'T one of them.

All those things would be great, but I still want self-driving cars. Private cars are never going to disappear and self-driving cars have got to be better than cars driven by drunks, idiots, tired/angry/careless/impatient/arrogant people. Also worth noting that the issue of cities being built around cars seems to be more of a problem in the US than other places (I'm basing this on what I've read, not actual experience), where cities are still walkable and/or have usable public transport systems.

OP must not be an American. In the EU the '15 min. Cities' is an 'urban planning concept in which most daily necessities and services, such as work, shopping, education, healthcare, and leisure can be easily reached by a 15-minute walk, bike ride, or public transit ride from any point in the city." (from Wikipedia). In the US, this would require demolishing and rebuilding entire cities.

I live in Saskatchewan (Canada). We don't have inter-city buses or trains (well, technically, there are two per week, but they only hit about 3 locations in the province). If you want to get anywhere, you drive.

Not gonna happen in North America.

Traffic terrorists in metal boxes say (a) "no bicycles on the road!" (b) "no bicycles on the sidewalk!" (c) "don't build protected bicycle lanes!" (d) "i'm not anti-cycling!" All in the same breath.

That would require forward thinking politicians. They do no exist in America.

To build a 438 mile HSR line from boston to D.C was projected to take 25 years, and cost $151 billion in 2012....a cost that has ballooned to over 500 billion before any ground was broke. During the early years of obama administration, A plan to implement 8600 miles of HSR was hatched....with a projected cost of (15 years ago mind you) over $1,000,000,000,000, and it would only account for 0.5% of commuter miles traveled, with a planned travel speed of 70-100mph. Imprinting HSR where it would actually be useful, means putting it in populated area's.....which means displacing people from their homes, and places of business....and that would always mean going through the lowest value area's, which are populated by....? People want it until they learn what would take.

And I always reuse plastic bags

Welp, guess I'm old now :D

Bicycles and aparment buildings are the most efficient forms of transport and housing. And yet car companies and drivers encourage and use violence against cyclists, and the construction industry wants to make EVERYTHING illegal to build except single detached homes that sell for $1 million each.

Cell phone makers: We'll pay the fine, with the income of five minutes.

I bet putting kids in foster homes is waaaay cheaper than simply paying the debts of struggling parents /s

What was the famous quote of the indian chief. When last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned....

better for the eyes and safety, a vehicle that exits the road will be braked more gently in vegetation and tall grass than on flat ground

What is the purpose of these massive cars? Compensating for something?

And remember : the people who discovered how to make insuline gave their patent away for 1$ to help people. But compagnies managed to patent the production process in itself, and that's how we T1 diabetics get killed in the name of profit.

Also in Denmark

Private jet owners should be required to volunteer them for use in emergency aid situations. At their cost. Call it a luxury tax.

...sleeping on his private jet, heading off to a private island for a long weekend..

Yk living in a hippie commune doesn't sound so bad anymore. I can deal with Pete's weed breath and Rivershines crystals if I get like, food and nice conversation

Russian politicians will be like "we are the greatest country in the world, the rotting West is no match for us, we have noone to be afraid of", then proceed to expand the military in the name of peace.

The Dead Internet theory is looking each passing day more like a fact.

And with popping more and more children in to this world. Downvote me, if it makes you feel better,but I said what I said.

Hmm, wonder why it was "peeling"? I can see two possible reasons right there. I have the same.

All my books and music used to be money. I am very happy with the exchange rate..

I think this kind of advertising has a negative effect on the consumer...if an advert annoys me in any way I will not but that product..irrespective of how good it is.

This is great!

Ah, finally a new poop knife.

Or a therapist pronto!

I always thought that Temu was a scam website designed to steal my credit card number

Great, and here is me struggling to pay the rent for a one room pokey hole under the roof Bedsit. Roll on the utopia.

Spray paint and two minutes says it can

If you don't buy an useless stuf, you already have 100% discount.

Excellent perspective. It applies to the cheap housing construction going on all over the US right now. The million dollar cardboard houses being poorly constructed over every spot of land will last maybe 50 years at best before having to be overhauled or demoed. Think about the size of THAT landfill.

My cell phone is about 8 years old. It still works fine. Why should I bother to get a new one because certain apps won't function on it? I just won't use those apps. And it has an amazing camera - that's why I picked it.

That's why I don't buy amazon

But hwo uses their products?

What is capitalism? - Exploitation of man by man. And what is communism? - the other way around.

FFS Yesterday I complained to the boss of a construction site after I saw 100s of snapped off cable ties littering the road. Today they were gone.

Wow, I own 2. One for swimming in the lake and a dry one.for afterwards.

If that was Nestlé's only problem. This company is one of the most evil there is. Just search “Controversies of Nestlé” on Google.

:(

Simple say no to both versions. It's possible, I do it all the time.

For some time now, there has been a law in the EU that requires the lowest price from the last month before the promotion to be placed next to the promotional price.

The price or the plastic? Both suck.

Sturgeon's Law - 90% of everything is garbage.

why are you looking for scientific accuracy in a non-scientific event?