" We can't stop shopping, we must stop shopping. It isn't only that consumption is distorting the climate, felling the forests, cluttering out lives, filling our heads with a throwaway mindset, even stealing the stars from the night sky. The worst is that it leaves us with no idea of what else to do, no belief that things can be different. Whichever way we go, it leaves us doomed. "

― J.B. MacKinnon , The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves