The Day the World Stops Shopping

Important topic, good to have actual numbers laid out, but all throughout you can tell this was written by a man. There's very little said about the unpaid, unseen labor (almost always of women) required for a lot of the “utopian” pasts listed, which would be the same in the utopian futures envisioned in the book. It very cursorily notes the concept in a few instances and then frustratingly dismisses it and moves on. Yes, reduce consumption and stop producing wild amounts of garbage and excess, but consider the other side of that lifestyle adjustment and who will be darning those longer wearing socks and washing those non-disposable dishes. It doesn't have to be women, but the way things are these days it usually is - what if these dudely perspectives encouraged the other environmentally minded dudes to take on those tasks themselves rather than only looking at the big picture economics of it? To make real change, both are necessary.

What more can I say than I think every human being in the 21st century need to read this book.