Even if you think yourself a reluctant shopper, consider all of the resources used to create our material world: the steel to build our homes, the natural gas to fire our furnaces, the aluminum in our smartphones and tablets. In the world’s richest countries, consumption has ballooned by over a third in the past few decades to the point that in 2010, each person in the thirty-four richest nations consumed over 220 pounds of stuff every day. How did we come to be such voracious, irrepressible…

Cute happy excited children, boy and girl in santa hats unwrap rabbit christmas present on holiday morning in beautiful room. Sister and brother open Xmas gifts near decorated tree and fireplace.

Opening Xmas presents

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A North Carolina couple woke up on Christmas morning to what they described as a "terrifying" scene: their 3-year-old loudly requesting a pair of scissors.