There is something unseemly about our nation's obsessive preoccupation with holiday shopping when our troops are dying and being maimed in Iraq. Should our indulgence be tempered by thoughts of the thousands of Iraqis who have also perished in the conflict as well as the billions of people around the globe lacking adequate drinking water and sanitation?
Do we need to take stock when the valuable natural resources used in many of the products we buy are being drained from the earth at an unsustainable rate and are not being recycled? After all, the United States and other developed countries constitute only 20 percent of the world's population, yet they consume more than 80 percent of its natural resources...
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Break the Chains: Think Before You Shop & Consume Less
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Dare to consume less
By Edward Flattau
The Baltimore Sun, Dec 4, 2006
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