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#3018 silly season*

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This article and the following in the next few days are repeat from last year or before. Somehow, what I think about at this time of year does not seem to change from one year to the next. Having said that, I have notice that the call to consume less seems a little more heard this year, but this is probably due to the economic context we live in, rather than to a desire to be kinder to the planet. Anyway, there it is:
I read a lot of articles about overconsumption, the environment, fast fashion, the future of the planet and I can feel a desire to change things in an abstract way. That being said, with the holidays approaching, despite all the recipes for an environmentally-sustainable or modest Christmas meal  making headlines, a reminder that charity shops are full of goods that would be glad to extend their life, that interest rates will continue to rise next year and thus endanger buyers who have gone to the limits of their means, the statistics tell us that we are spending more and more. It makes me want to go spend Christmas in a desert. There are none nearby, so this year I will be at the beach.

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#3018silly season

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I read a lot of articles about overconsumption, the environment, fast-fashion, the future of the planet and I can  feel a desire to change things in an abstract way. That being said, with the holidays approaching, despite all the recipes for an environmentally-sustainable or modest Christmas meal  making headlines, a reminder that charity shops are full of goods that would be glad to extend their life, that interest rates will continue to rise next year and thus endanger buyers who have gone to the limits of their means, the statistics tell us that we are spending more and more. It makes me want to go spend Christmas in a desert. There are none nearby, so this year it will be the beach.