According to National Geographic, twenty years ago, out of almost 7 billion humans only “about 1.7 billion people belong to the global ‘consumer class.’”¹

This June, the number went up to 4 billion.²

This means that all the problems that come with overconsumption, like CO₂ emissions, waste and plastic dumping, energy consumption, not to mention all the emotional damage that often comes with it, have far more than doubled in two decades.

What do do about that?

There’s only one thing to do for everyone of us (because asking politicians to act on our behalf apparently doesn’t work): to stop consuming. Every single one counts; “but the others also don’t stop doing it” is whataboutism and no excuse at all.

Stop buying stuff.

¹ https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/consumerism-earth-suffers ² https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-the-world-consumer-class-will-grow-from-4-billion-to-5-billion-people-by-2031

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