consumerism

The Power of Positive Thinking was an immediate sensation on its release. Blending radical optimism with Christian superstition, Norman Vincent Peale offered his readers a revolutionary path to supreme self-confidence. The first self-help…

The green movement has been growing in popularity ever since we started to realise the unbelievable amount of damage human society has been causing to our environment. Amidst all the talk of recycling paper and bringing your own bag to the…

The impact sustained by the earth as a result of the unfettered reign of markets and continual pursuit of economic growth is profoundly worrying. A war is being waged against the natural world by the ideological fundamentalism which…

John F Schumaker, writing in April 2016's issue of New Internationalist, reckons 'our' minds are demoralised and that it is 'our' culture, and not 'us' that is sick. Western consumer culture is creating a psycho-spiritual crisis that…