American author Madeleine L’Engle provides today’s Earth911 Inspiration. In her memoir, A Circle of Quiet, she wrote, “A pitch to make us buy a new car or a new stove when our old one is perfectly good, so that we’ll have a better ‘image’ of ourselves, doesn’t make sense, but it’s what the advertiser’s in business for. And the powers of darkness know exactly where to infiltrate.”
By buying into advertising claims that we need the “latest and greatest” products, we have facilitated planned obsolescence and littered our planet with waste. Do we really need to purchase the newest model or are we just allowing advertisers to manipulate us? By becoming conscious consumers and thinking about the impact our choices have on the planet, we can make changes for the better.
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This post was originally published on May 1, 2020.