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The scourge of consumptive culture

October 19, 2009
Better Culture

Introduction Americans and Western Europeans have had a lock on unsustainable over-consumption for decades. But now developing countries are catching up rapidly, to the detriment of the environment, health, and happiness,according to the Worldwatch Institute, a Washington D.C.-based research organization focuses this year on consumerism run amuck. Approximately 1.7 billion people worldwide now belong to the “consumer class”—the group of people characterized by diets of highly processed food, desire for bigger http://absolutetruth.in/2009/10/the-scourge-of-consumeristic-culture/“>…Read the Rest

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