Recession barely dents ‘eco-debt’

Calling for an end to the consumption explosion, he said that while billions in poorer countries subsist, “we (in the rich West) consume vastly more, and yet with little or nothing to show for it in terms of greater life satisfaction.”

In section last week, one girl said that the recession was curbing the consumerism attitude.  I said that so many past economic crises have occurred, and that there has been no change in this attitude.  I feel validated, and saddened.