At work we want to look professional, so old or patched clothes are out of the question.
It may be good manners to bring small gifts for your sister's children when visiting, or to buy them ice-cream when on a beach side walk.
Recommending the newest movie is the most natural thing.
All perfectly normal acts of kindness. And yet, they inadvertently reinforce consumerism.
Similarly, our ideas about cleanliness, reliability, freedom of choice, etc. mirror and strengthen the status quo.
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Interpersonally there may not be much difference between "look what I repaired" and "look what I bought", but ecologically there is a world of difference.
Solving ecological overshoot would require for our cultures to bridge that gap between interpersonal and ecological. In fact, all spheres of life would need to take on an ecological dimension.
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