The Conversation

The Conversation published this article by Anthony James, with the title: Enough’s enough: buying more stuff isn’t always the answer to happiness. Australian cartoonist Greg Foyster contributed the cartoon. (Re-published around the world including EconoTimes.)

‘The average German household contains 10,000 items. That’s according to a study cited by Frank Trentmann in his sweeping history of consumption, Empire of Things. We’re “bursting”, he says, with the amount of stuff that we have - while all of this consumption is steeping us in debt and dangerously depleting the planet’s resources and systems.’

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