Green consumerism
I have a flyer from the grocery store offering “Earth Day Specials” and “Earth Day Savings”. I don’t recall seeing this before. Home Depot says “Go Green Think Orange & Save”. Maybe since Easter fell in March this year, Earth Day is the only marketing gimmick left for April.
All of which got me curious about green consumerism in general. At one end of the spectrum is the view that the quality of consumption matters, and green consumption is better than non-green consumption. At the other end is the view that it is the quantity of consumption that matters, and there is no way to consume our way out of our environmental problems. There is even an intermediate view that green consumption is a sort of “gateway drug” on the way to less consumption.
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