KERA's Think

Want to help the planet? Stop buying so much


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It’s Cyber Monday, so that means a spending spree for holiday gifts — which might be fun for you but is rough on the planet. Journalist J. B. MacKinnon joins host Krys Boyd to talk about the push-pull between the supposed economic harm of less shopping with the environmental impacts of buying too much. His book is called “The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves.”
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