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I went to my bank on Christmas Eve to make a deposit and attempted to make some typical holiday small talk with Max, my favorite teller. “Are you ready for the holiday?” I asked (careful not to say “Christmas” lest I offend). She shrugged and said that it would be quiet, then she told me how a friend who has stage-four breast cancer, and who seemed near death in the spring, was up and about and feeling much better. “I’m just going to celebrate the fact that she’s alive right now,” she said, “and I don’t feel at all bad about not getting out there and shopping.”
Amen to that. There seems to have been an intense focus on how much “consumers” (a consumer somehow being a different species of human being; more on that later) are spending this holiday season. As though what comes out of our thinner-these-days wallets… More
- UN Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen: is it dead on arrival or too early to tell?
- If we can’t get effective climate policy, is it too soon to start thinking about water policy as well?
- When one moves, what does one do with that stash of outdated business cards?
- How will Americans wean themselves off plastic?
- Has no one thought of a “green” pizza box before?
