Ruchira Shah was just your average young woman with a severe addiction to cute purses and high-end kitchen tools she never used, when one fine day, she decided to quit buying anything new. For a year. After twelve months of personal environmental experiments, Ruchi felt like she wanted to make a larger positive impact, so she decided to back to school, and is currently pursuing a masters degree at...
How Do We Change Society?
One of the things that struck me when I was in Denmark was how much blatant consumerism is frowned upon. My friends told me that in Denmark people look down on you if you own a flashy car, because no one wants to seem "better" than anyone else. As a former Angeleno, where your status is directly related to how nice your car is, this concept was exceedingly strange to me.
There are a lot of reasons why Copenhagen is a "green" city, but I think this lack of elitism is a huge contributer. But this begs the question: how do we change societal attitudes in societies which value conspicuous consumerism? How do we make other societies more like Denmark? How do we create more societies where elitism is frowned upon, and people compete to be as non-consumerist as possible?
What do you think?
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Wendy G 10am March 31 I have two cars (one a Mercedes diesel) that are older than some people who have already have children (24 years old). They are by no means ...
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