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Oh wow. To take it a step further, I think we should all never buy or use anything but air. Plant's are people too, and they need the water.
Actually maybe would should all kill ourselves so that our bodies can help feed the environment, which is of course much more important than people, because it doesn't destroy itself by being nice to other environments on Christmas.
What would the environment do without newswire.
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Yeah but what about the elves? Thats what this article misses. Any consideration of the little people.
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Fix your linky, please, so it doesn't send this page into ultra-ultra-wide. You can do that by editing your post, then using the URL button below the post box.
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That article is really stupid. Not that there aren't valid things to say about run-amok consumerism, but Christmas is hardly to blame for that. Aussies may be different, but Americans aren't exactly known for their austerity during the other 364 days of the year.
Seriously, if you don't get a sweater for Christmas, you'll very likely buy one yourself if you need one. Ditto with the DVD player, coffee maker, etc. The only things, really, that Christmas in and of itself adds to the burden of consumerism is all the Christmas-specific decoration. (And if the Western World suddenly stopped buying Christmas decorations, it would probably trigger the collapse of a few asian economies, or at least a significant portion of the businesses operating there.)
Another thing the article seems to think is that water used is water gone. By and large the water all ends up in the ocean, eventually, and gets recycled back to the land in snow and rain. If it isn't used in the middle somewhere, it's still going to flow to the ocean. Is someone going to take all that water formerly used to grow barley and ship it off to quench the droughts in the Sudan? And what about the environmental costs of all the people put out of work because all the things now made for Christmas are no longer necessary.
Sure, there are problems with over-consumerism, waste, polution and drastic inequities in resources and wealth, but Christmas is hardly to blame for any of that. And if Christmas were eliminated, none of that would become the slightest bit better without solutions that have nothing to do with the elimination of Christmas.
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