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

This is a perfect example of a good but non-scalable solution. Banana leaves are produced locally and in limited quantity annually without damaging the tree. It's basically a leftover product, and availability roughly matches the demand, keeping the price low. Scaling up would mean either planting more trees (overproducing bananas and driving down its economic viability), overexploiting the trees, or displacing availability from local consumers to more high-paying ones, effectively negating access to the resource to the communities that use it and adding extra environmental impact from logistics.

Vwisk d

only works for a few things.

Sounds good to me

Because that's what they have, so they use it. If you want to change the world, don't compare the world to this one tiny little spot on the global map. You need to think locally for things like this. Every area has their own unique qualities, so please don't Ever compare us/them again. It's just foolish.

I had to move from a big house to an apartment near the subway to not have to have a car. My new place is small compared to the old house, but I have 3 supermarkets in a 1km radio, a pet shop and a veterinary clinic. I can do everything just walking. My life improved maybe 80%.

I want public transportation to be affordable

I want this, everywhere. And more bikes. I like bikes.

I live in Edinburgh, Scotland and couldn't ask for better public transit! We have buses and trams that are usually almost always on time.

Seoul - so easy to get around. Auckland - the opposite. Grrr

That was during Covid, and not entirely the fault of Brussels Airlines. The Lufthansa Group, of which BrA is part of, had in total 18000 empty or near-empty flights. Reason was the international rule of loosing slots if less than 80%, later reduced to 50%, of the slots were used. https://www.thebulletin.be/brussels-airlines-runs-3000-empty-flights-maintain-airport-slots

this should be illegal

Well now I'm ashamed of my country.

It's always the little guy who has to "do what you can" to deal with the destruction of the planet. Go after the big oil companies and companies that do this s**t, they are the real problem.

Thank God I sold my car and do everything that I can on foot today. So I can compensate for these empty & celebrity flights /sarcasm

My old person trait is that I expect a home appliance I buy to last more than 5 years (fridge, washing machine, toaster etc)

All.the.above.

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My old person trait is that I think you should get a manual on how to run a product/program with purchase. Companies think we already know how to do all this!!!!

My washing machine wouldn’t work the other night cause it couldn’t connect to wifi 🤦🏻‍♀️

I must be ancient!

But, all the countries with the most social programs and highest happiness ratings are capitalist countries. I don't disagree about the waste part, but I think people are confusing capitalism with too-unregulated capitalism combined with corruption.

Capitalism functions based on the will (and spending) of the masses. How many malls, chains and independently owned shops have we all watched fade into a vague memory? That hasn't happened because of some grand conspiracy, it's not the fault of "the rich"....it's because you, (yes you!) and countless others have opted to order everything off the internet and have it delivered straight to your door. Mostly from amazon! It's because so many people, when given the choice between wearing something they already own, or getting some new piece of fast fashion garbage....they'll choose the cheap PoS 9 times out of 10. They opt for eating food that's slowly killing them, over anything healthy because the death nuggets are in higher quantity. People order cheap plastic $hit from China, that they do not need, to "solve" problems they do not have because "it's cute" "it's cheap" "it was in my recommendations"

Just about any item or service you pay for now feels like a huge ripoff.

...well, yes. That's the 'value added' feature of the system..

Capitalism isn’t the cause of fast fashion, overusing resources an failing to meet basic needs. WOW. BP you’re starting to sound like socialists.

10 years later : we still have planned obsolescence here. It's not a matter of law but also a matter of means to implement it.

It should be a law that anything with a rechargeable battery, can be opened easily in order to replace that battery. I'm staring at my old Clarisonic facial scrubber, the battery is dead and won't keep a charge. I have batteries for it, I simply have to mechanically slice the unit open to replace them, then use super glue to put it back together. It'll never be waterproof again though. Designs like this should be criminal. Phones are the worst.

... won't work at *that* level. Make it *hurt*...

Apple… my iPhones always last until a month or two before renewal (2years) then go slow as hell. Struggling atm on websites now cause my contract gets upgrade next month

Every country should do this