“ There is a truth in the term consumer, but, to be honest, consumers we are as well as consumed. Fox, NPR, EPI and all the rest have called us out. We are what we consume. That is increasingly clear. Today, our only relationship with other beings and other things is to consume them. From one end of the country to the other, we have all been harnessed together into a great devouring machine, consuming plants, animals, vistas, beauty and resources of every sort with no worries for the future, for our children and grandchildren or for our descendants for millennia to come. We consumers focused on buying trophy houses and building bulging 401(k)’s so we could consume “going forward.” Whether we were “going forward” or not, we were certainly not thinking of the paths we were taking into the future - until the day came when we saw that all we had was trash and we were dead in the water.
I, Consumer? | Truthout
