Dead Man in Paradise

J.B. MacKinnon

Travel

Faber&Faber

The Day the World Stops Shopping: How to have a better life and greener world

THE DAY THE WORLD STOPS SHOPPING

Random House Canada

<p>We can't stop shopping but we must stop shopping - the consumer dilemma that defines our lives and our future. What would happen if we did?\nWe are using up the planet at almost double the rate it can regenerate. To support our economies, we're told we must shop now like we've never shopped before. And whilst we can do it more responsibly, the scale of our consumption remains the biggest factor in the ruination of the planet. Yet our reliance on stuff continues to grow.\nBut what would our world look like if we stopped? Would civilisation collapse? Would the planet's ecology be reborn? What would happen to the way we think, make products, use time, express our individuality? Would life be better - or worse?\nVisiting places where economies have experienced temporary shut-downs, artisan producers, zero-consumption societies and bringing together a host of expert views, this is both a deeply reported thought-experiment, a history of our relationship with consumption, and a story about the future.\nOur private choices are putting the world in peril. The Day the World Stops Shopping is an essential exploration of who we are and what we use, and a vision of a more sustainable world.</p>

Vintage

<p>Perhaps nothing illuminates the complexity of our relationship to the natural world better than the relationship between people and animals: we wonder at them, use them, adore them, mourn them, protect them, cause them suffering. The essays collected here explore these contradicitons in all their difficulty, but they also celebrate our connection to the animal world and provide a model for how we might respect and revere our fellow animals more deeply. As Pattiann Rogers writes, "For how can we possess dignity if we allow them no dignity? Who will recognize our beauty if we do not revel in their beauty?...How can we believe in grace if we cannot bestow grace?"</p>

Animals & People

Mary Oliver

Craig Childs

Brian Doyle

Pattiann Rogers

Amy Leach

SY MONTGOMERY

Christopher Ketcham

Lisa Couturier

DAVID GESSNER

Kathleen JAMIE

The Orion Society

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