The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves

Consuming less is our best strategy for saving the
planet—but can we do it? In this thoughtful and surprisingly optimistic book,
journalist J. B. MacKinnon investigates how we may achieve a world without
shopping.

We can’t stop shopping. And yet we
must. This is the consumer dilemma.

The
economy says we must always consume more: even the slightest drop in spending leads
to widespread unemployment, bankruptcy, and home foreclosure.

The planet says we consume too much: in America, we
burn the earth’s r...