El día que el mundo deje de comprar

Material goods have never been so important to our lives and our identity. We deplete the planet's resources twice as fast as they can be regenerated. We buy twice as many clothes as we did twenty years ago and keep them for half as long. We live immersed in the culture of compulsive consumption, we know the consequences and yet we cannot stop. But what would our world be like if we stopped doing it? Would civilization collapse? Would we witness the rebirth of the ecology of the planet? What would happen to the way we think, create products, invest time, express our individuality? J. B. MacKinnon interviews artisan producers and zero consumption societies, visits places where economies have experienced temporary shutdowns, and gathers a wealth of expert opinion. The result is a deeply insightful and timely chronicle, an essential exploration of who we are and what we consume, and a vision of a perhaps more sustainable future. We know that with our own decisions we have put the world in danger; Now we must ask ourselves if we will be able to change the paradigm.