QUOTES
"Driving
hybrid cars and limiting industrial emissions is great, but they are band-aid
solutions if we don't address the core problem: we have to consume less. This
is the message of Buy Nothing Day."
"It's
a measure of the depth of our consumer trance that the death of the planet is
not sufficient to break it."
"Our
mental environment is a common-property resource like the air or the water. We
need to protect ourselves from unwanted incursions into it, much the same way
we lobbied for non-smoking areas ten years ago."
“All
of us somehow felt that the next battleground was going to be culture. We all
felt somehow that our culture had been stolen from us – by commercial forces,
by advertising agencies, by TV broadcasters. It felt like we were no longer singing
our songs and telling stories, and generating our culture from the bottom up,
but now we were somehow being spoon-fed this commercial culture top down.”
