#consuming — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #consuming, aggregated by home.social.
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The cage that holds you isn't closed. Just find the lever.
https://silentarchitect.org/2026/03/in-the-cage-dont-see-the-cage.html
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The cage that holds you isn't closed. Just find the lever.
https://silentarchitect.org/2026/03/in-the-cage-dont-see-the-cage.html
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#Fashion: Recycled polyester releases both the highest number of fibres and the finest particles, worsening the microplastic pollution problem.
98% of recycled polyester comes from plastic bottles, not textile waste.
https://changingmarkets.org/report/spinning-greenwash/
#pollutants #waste #pollution #consuming #regulation #plastics #microplastics #pollutants #polyester #textiles
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#Fashion: Recycled polyester releases both the highest number of fibres and the finest particles, worsening the microplastic pollution problem.
98% of recycled polyester comes from plastic bottles, not textile waste.
https://changingmarkets.org/report/spinning-greenwash/
#pollutants #waste #pollution #consuming #regulation #plastics #microplastics #pollutants #polyester #textiles
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Is Australia serious about reducing road trauma?
Australians want giant fuel guzzling cars risking the life of other beings"As we head for a fifth consecutive year of rising road deaths and what could be the worst year for pedestrian fatalities in nearly two decades, it’s time to look more closely at what this means."
"Evidence from multiple countries suggests driving larger vehicles may lead to more confident or risk-prone behaviour."
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https://theconversation.com/australias-roads-are-full-of-giant-cars-and-everyone-pays-the-price-what-can-be-done-268212
#Cars #SUVs #KIllerCars #bullying #pedestrians #children #risks #FossilFuels #PetroMasculinity ##Climate #pollution #RoadKill #regulation #Australia #consuming #RoadTrauma -
Is Australia serious about reducing road trauma?
Australians want giant fuel guzzling cars risking the life of other beings"As we head for a fifth consecutive year of rising road deaths and what could be the worst year for pedestrian fatalities in nearly two decades, it’s time to look more closely at what this means."
"Evidence from multiple countries suggests driving larger vehicles may lead to more confident or risk-prone behaviour."
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https://theconversation.com/australias-roads-are-full-of-giant-cars-and-everyone-pays-the-price-what-can-be-done-268212
#Cars #SUVs #KIllerCars #bullying #pedestrians #children #risks #FossilFuels #PetroMasculinity ##Climate #pollution #RoadKill #regulation #Australia #consuming #RoadTrauma -
The accumulated waste of mass consumption are decaying in landfills.
The chemicals those goods were drenched in – lead, mercury, cadmium, PFAS, PCBs – are seeping slowly out into water, soil and air.
Read a report by Juliet Ferguson and Leana Hosea: https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar2a63dd82
#trash #waste #civilization #pollution #consuming #responsibility #history #regulation #plastic #landfill #pollutants #goods
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The accumulated waste of mass consumption are decaying in landfills.
The chemicals those goods were drenched in – lead, mercury, cadmium, PFAS, PCBs – are seeping slowly out into water, soil and air.
Read a report by Juliet Ferguson and Leana Hosea: https://euobserver.com/eu-political/ar2a63dd82
#trash #waste #civilization #pollution #consuming #responsibility #history #regulation #plastic #landfill #pollutants #goods
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"Australia’s now seven-year-old Modern Slavery Act
risks becoming a global laggard, anti-slavery advocates say. Unlike comparable jurisdictions, such as the US and EU, Australia has no ban on imports linked to forced labour, nor does it require companies to act on modern slavery risks – only to report them."“It’s unacceptable that in Australia at the moment, there is nothing to stop or prohibit people from importing goods into Australia that have been made or that have been suspected to have been made by forced labour."
"...Australia’s legislation needed to move beyond “a regime that focuses all of corporate effort on writing reports about modern slavery, and shift attention to actions required by companies and outcomes”."
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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug/24/kmart-supply-chain-federal-court-australia-modern-slavery-laws
#ForcedLabour #mandatory #SupplyChains #regulation #consuming #slavery #work #ethics #enforcement -
"Australia’s now seven-year-old Modern Slavery Act
risks becoming a global laggard, anti-slavery advocates say. Unlike comparable jurisdictions, such as the US and EU, Australia has no ban on imports linked to forced labour, nor does it require companies to act on modern slavery risks – only to report them."“It’s unacceptable that in Australia at the moment, there is nothing to stop or prohibit people from importing goods into Australia that have been made or that have been suspected to have been made by forced labour."
"...Australia’s legislation needed to move beyond “a regime that focuses all of corporate effort on writing reports about modern slavery, and shift attention to actions required by companies and outcomes”."
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https://www.theguardian.com/law/2025/aug/24/kmart-supply-chain-federal-court-australia-modern-slavery-laws
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Move-only типы и ключевое слово move в Swift
Привет, Хабр! Сегодня рассмотрим интересную вещь из из стека Swift 6 – move-only типы, ключевое слово move и всё, что с ними связано.
https://habr.com/ru/companies/otus/articles/933034/
#swift #управление_памятью #перемещение_значений #владение_объектами #moveonly_типы #consuming #безопасность_типов #оптимизация_Swift
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Well shit. Just when I go all-in on #instant #coffee (#MaxwellHouse #FrenchVanilla), and after I've already consumed almost 5 "containers" full over the last month or so, I read an #article yesterday that #consuming instant coffee #increases your #risk of an incurable #blindness disease by 700%.
Guess it's back to the Keurig.
https://nypost.com/2025/07/08/health/type-of-coffee-increases-risk-of-incurable-blinding-condition-by-700/ -
“Always #connected, always #posting & #consuming, we resemble #madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner.” (Good piece, but doesn’t mention some obvious countermeasures: stay the hell away from #X, etc) www.ft.com/content/5d06...
Welcome to slop world: how the... -
“Always #connected, always #posting & #consuming, we resemble #madmen now, giving voice to thoughts that are normally the province of the eccentric ranting on a street corner.” (Good piece, but doesn’t mention some obvious countermeasures: stay the hell away from #X, etc) www.ft.com/content/5d06...
Welcome to slop world: how the... -
'Another 300 million are "emerging" or "aspirant" #consumers but they are reluctant spenders who have only just begun to open their purse strings, as click-of-a-button digital payments make it easy to transact.
What is more, the #consuming class in #Asia's third largest #economy is not "widening" as much as it is "deepening", according to the report. That basically means #India's #wealthy population is not really growing in numbers...'
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'Another 300 million are "emerging" or "aspirant" #consumers but they are reluctant spenders who have only just begun to open their purse strings, as click-of-a-button digital payments make it easy to transact.
What is more, the #consuming class in #Asia's third largest #economy is not "widening" as much as it is "deepening", according to the report. That basically means #India's #wealthy population is not really growing in numbers...'
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→ You can still own music (by @thibaultamartin)
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/14-you-can-own-music/“I want to rebuild a long lasting emotional connection with music, instead of consuming it from brittle catalogs.”
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→ You can still own music (by @thibaultamartin)
https://ergaster.org/posts/2025/02/14-you-can-own-music/“I want to rebuild a long lasting emotional connection with music, instead of consuming it from brittle catalogs.”
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[A long thread ball 🧶]
#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience
#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead
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[A long thread ball 🧶]
#Work is a matter of power and domination.
#Work should be a concern of political theory.Here is the introduction from Kathi Weeks' book 'The problem with work: feminism, Marxism, antiwork politics and postwork imaginaries': https://libcom.org/article/problem-work-kathi-weeks @politicalscience
#fetishism #manufacturingConsent #believe #beliefs #faith #hope #institutionsDeceive #politicalTheory #growth #consumerism #economy #shopping #capitalism #workCulture #jobs #KathiWeeks #imagination #feminism #Marxism #antiwork #politics #postwork #book #buying #consuming #consumption #workEthics #Foucault #bioPower #bioPolitics #MaxWeber #longRead
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[#TRADESHOW] The 2024 Guangzhou #Global #Tea #Industry #Trade #Fair is a premier #event, inviting major tea-#producing countries as well as tea-#consuming and transit countries. This #international #platform aims to bring together global tea #industry experts, scholars, and practitioners to explore new heights and patterns for the tea industry under the current development structure. 16.-19. August 2024. #Canton Fair Complex, #Guangzhou, #China. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/2024-guangzhou-global-tea-trade-fair/
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[#TRADESHOW] The 2024 Guangzhou #Global #Tea #Industry #Trade #Fair is a premier #event, inviting major tea-#producing countries as well as tea-#consuming and transit countries. This #international #platform aims to bring together global tea #industry experts, scholars, and practitioners to explore new heights and patterns for the tea industry under the current development structure. 16.-19. August 2024. #Canton Fair Complex, #Guangzhou, #China. https://cnbusinessforum.com/event/2024-guangzhou-global-tea-trade-fair/
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Environmentally sustainable plant-based dishes in restaurants and cafes?
"Occasionally ordering a plant-based meal instead of a meat dish can greatly reduce the environmental footprint of the global food system. Animal agriculture accounts for 56% of food-related greenhouse gas emissions but produces only 18% of calories and 37% of protein."
"This means a family of four ordering plant-based meat burgers instead of beef patties saves carbon emissions equal to driving from Brisbane to the Gold Coast."
Check out the meat heavy menus in your local eatery in NSW!
Ways restaurants can promote plant-based meat dishes.
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https://theconversation.com/what-kind-of-diner-are-you-6-types-of-diners-who-avoid-plant-based-meat-dishes-226234
#meat #climate #restaurants #cafes #eateries #food #NSW #consuming #livestock #ClimateBreakdown #GHG -
Environmentally sustainable plant-based dishes in restaurants and cafes?
"Occasionally ordering a plant-based meal instead of a meat dish can greatly reduce the environmental footprint of the global food system. Animal agriculture accounts for 56% of food-related greenhouse gas emissions but produces only 18% of calories and 37% of protein."
"This means a family of four ordering plant-based meat burgers instead of beef patties saves carbon emissions equal to driving from Brisbane to the Gold Coast."
Check out the meat heavy menus in your local eatery in NSW!
Ways restaurants can promote plant-based meat dishes.
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https://theconversation.com/what-kind-of-diner-are-you-6-types-of-diners-who-avoid-plant-based-meat-dishes-226234
#meat #climate #restaurants #cafes #eateries #food #NSW #consuming #livestock #ClimateBreakdown #GHG -
I finally bought a new tv this weekend! I got the Samsung Q60S since it was on sale. It’s a #QLED 32” tv to replace my older Samsung tv which was 46” (which I realized is a bit big—and now old). So far, I’m happy. I didn’t realize smart tvs come with free channels. Samsung has its own #Tizen tv os. I used the Best Buy credit card and their 12-months no apr promotion. Gonna donate the old TV to the library for digital signage. #adulting #consuming Rich got a Sony 📺!
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The Right to Repair
New EU rules encouraging consumers to repair devices over replacing them.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231117IPR12211/new-eu-rules-encouraging-consumers-to-repair-devices-over-replacing-themEU Parliament votes yes to right to repair
The European Parliament showed resounding support for consumers’ right to repair during today’s pivotal vote on the “Common rules promoting the repair of goods”.
https://repair.eu/news/unlocking-consumer-freedom-eu-parliament-votes-yes-to-right-to-repair/Planned obsolescence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescencehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_repair
Right to repair is a legal right for owners of devices and equipment to freely modify and repair products such as automobiles, electronics, and farm equipment.
#stuff #repair #repairability #rights #consuming #ElectronicDevices #waste #PlannedObsolescence #design #ThrowAwaySociety #GHG -
The Right to Repair
New EU rules encouraging consumers to repair devices over replacing them.
https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231117IPR12211/new-eu-rules-encouraging-consumers-to-repair-devices-over-replacing-themEU Parliament votes yes to right to repair
The European Parliament showed resounding support for consumers’ right to repair during today’s pivotal vote on the “Common rules promoting the repair of goods”.
https://repair.eu/news/unlocking-consumer-freedom-eu-parliament-votes-yes-to-right-to-repair/Planned obsolescence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planned_obsolescencehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right_to_repair
Right to repair is a legal right for owners of devices and equipment to freely modify and repair products such as automobiles, electronics, and farm equipment.
#stuff #repair #repairability #rights #consuming #ElectronicDevices #waste #PlannedObsolescence #design #ThrowAwaySociety #GHG -
"Nearly all the works of Roman art that were most greatly admired in antiquity have been lost or destroyed. The vast majority of #ancientRome public buildings have either been completely destroyed or deteriorated into ruins.
But we still have a literal mountain of ancient Roman #trash": https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/04/10/monte-testaccio-a-literal-mountain-of-ancient-roman-trash/
#olive #oliveOil #Rome #Trade #civilization #empire #pollution #consuming #responsibility #history #regulation #plastic
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"Nearly all the works of Roman art that were most greatly admired in antiquity have been lost or destroyed. The vast majority of #ancientRome public buildings have either been completely destroyed or deteriorated into ruins.
But we still have a literal mountain of ancient Roman #trash": https://talesoftimesforgotten.com/2021/04/10/monte-testaccio-a-literal-mountain-of-ancient-roman-trash/
#olive #oliveOil #Rome #Trade #civilization #empire #pollution #consuming #responsibility #history #regulation #plastic
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Australian shelters and pounds kill 50,000 mostly healthy cats and kittens in a year. There’s a way to prevent this pointless killing
"Despite the scale of this killing, Australia’s stray cat numbers are not decreasing. The evidence shows an urgent need for proactive community cat programs offering free #desexing of cats in targeted problem areas.
At least 50% of cats entering pounds and shelters are kittens less than six months old. These figures highlight why community cat programs are urgently needed across Australia to protect cats, native wildlife and people."https://theconversation.com/australian-shelters-and-pounds-kill-50-000-mostly-healthy-cats-and-kittens-in-a-year-theres-a-way-to-prevent-this-pointless-killing-201947
#Roaming #Cats native #Wildlife #CatContainment #Trauma #Staff #StrayCats #DomesticCats #Consuming #Pets #Overproduction -
Why we need to #logoff and look for #TransJoy
OPINION: I question what #consuming so much #doomerism will do to us as a #community over the long term—and I want us to make more space for #celebration
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA
https://xtramagazine.com/power/identity/trans-joy-249756 -
Why we need to #logoff and look for #TransJoy
OPINION: I question what #consuming so much #doomerism will do to us as a #community over the long term—and I want us to make more space for #celebration
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQIA
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Pet dumping in throwaway society.
Animal shelters are overflowing. Australian's are surrendering their pets at an alarming rate, leaving shelters around the country overflowing and forcing some to stop accepting new animals all together.The 'novelty of pet ownership has worn off'.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-02/animal-shelters-overflowing-with-record-pet-surrenders/102284546
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Pet dumping in throwaway society.
Animal shelters are overflowing. Australian's are surrendering their pets at an alarming rate, leaving shelters around the country overflowing and forcing some to stop accepting new animals all together.The 'novelty of pet ownership has worn off'.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-05-02/animal-shelters-overflowing-with-record-pet-surrenders/102284546
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[Moreover, in “borrowing” the equivalent of 4.1 planets’ worth of #biocapacity, #Canadians are #consuming more of the Earth’s biocapacity & resources than we are entitled to, if everyone on #Earth were to get their #FairShare .
In doing so we are, in effect, taking precious resources not only from others around the world who need them for their own #human & #SocialDevelopment, but from #FutureGenerations and from other #species .] -
When you #Scroll the #Feed and #Threads remember what you #Read and #See is a form of #Consuming as in #Eating - Make sure you are eating more than just the #Reporting of the #Garbage of #World #News and #Rants
#Awareness of your #Diet #Matters
Take #Time to #Breathe and take in #Goodness amongst all the #Clamor
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Over Consumption is the Biggest Elephant
I was listening to a program on the CBC this afternoon talking about de-carbonizing the shipping industry. The person being interviewed was part of an alliance of professionals in British Columbia taking on the challenges and problems of getting cargo ships and the whole industry to net zero. It’s apparently estimated that the conversion to a net zero system will cost between 1.0 - 1.4 trillion US dollars.
The story sounds similar in most other industries. As we try and get our carbon emissions down, the cost to transition to renewable sources of energy feels almost insurmountable. But the experts tell us that this is what must be done to stop runaway climate change, as if it’s not already here.
It is remarkable that these incredibly important environmental conversations are so single focused, as if shifting to net zero is somehow going to solve all our problems. I mean, it’s start, but even I can see the long terms problems that are already starting to present themselves in greenifying a capitalist industrial economy.
And I’m no environmental expert.
We live on a planet with finite resources but every attempt to save our consumption-based economic systems seems to drive another nail into the coffin. Not only are we not considering the potential long term problems of de-carbonizing our industrial complexes to allow them to continue operating business as usual, but the solutions that are being developed aren’t even looking beyond energy consumption. What about resource depletion? What about garbage? What about plastic? What about wealth inequality? What about workers’ rights and cost of living and endless pollution? The shipping industry touches all of these issues but there was no mention of them. I have to imagine that some expert at some table somewhere is considering all of these issues when working on this “de-carboning the cargo ships” idea but I’m not hearing anything about it.
The elephant in the room, of course, is that we can’t keep consuming at our current rate for a myriad of reasons: we’ll run out of resources, the economy demands cheap goods and labour to continue output which causes dangerous and unfair working environments, the devastation to natural ecosystems is often irreparable, we’re experiencing a mass extinction because of habitat loss. I could go on.
It feels like part of the reason no one wants to talk about our culture of over consumption because, of course, it’s not equal across the board. Those with the ability to consume, aka. people with money, consume in vast quantities compared to people without money. So when we point fingers at each other, the blame cannot be places equally and that makes it hard. But hard or not, it doesn’t mean we should avoid the conversation.
I also feel that these large industry-wide planning initiatives are the best time to talk about strategies to shift to an economic system that doesn’t rely on consumption. All the big brains in one place talking about huge systemic change: it seems like the perfect time to address this enormous culture-shifting problem. Even coming out of summits like COP which are strategically focused on climate change, all the focus is on greenhouse gas emissions when there’s a huge opportunity to talk with industry and government leaders about this vast intersectional issue that covers a huge landscape of social, political, and economic challenges.
But it’s like crickets. More empty policies with little tangible action and all of it targeted specifically at reducing carbon emissions, even if that reduction never happens.
Why are we so scared to talk about shifting away from a consumptive-based economic system? Is it really all capitalist lobbyists buying out the decision makers? Like I said, I’m just a random person with no background in economics, politics, or ecology, and the problem seems really clear to me: as long as we continue to operate under a economic system that requires ongoing consumption while we live on a planet with finite resources, we are just going to create new problems in trying to solve the old ones. In other words, de-carbonizing is going to come at the expense of somethings else, likely resource depletion.
When we fail to have these conversations at the forty thousand foot view we place the responsibility squarely on the individual. People like you and I can clearly see that lowering our own personal consumption is an important step on the path forward, but then the issue becomes “individualized” rather than the systemic. We get this weird egoism that plays into the dilemma: “I’m doing my part by only buying fair trade! What are you doing to save the world??” (while of course continuing to support dozens of other unethical industries because there’s no other options). And, as mentioned, all consumerism is not created equal. Asking people struggling to make ends meet to spend all their money on ethically produced clothing is ridiculous when billionaires buy yachts.
I don’t want to appear reductionist: I know these problems are huge and complex and it’s likely that resource depletion and over consumption are being talked about behind more than one door. I know that there is no simple solution, but I’d really appreciate hearing more in the news and media about what it might look like to transition to an economy that isn’t just post-carbon, but post-over-consumption. I believe this conversation is integral, requires collective visioning, and must be part of the conversations around mitigating the effects of climate change as well as our current economic collapse.
#overconsumption #consumerism #consumption #ecocide #anticapitalism #climatechange #climatecollapse #consuming #resourcedepletion #greenhousegasemissions #swimmingupstream #anticapitalist
Originally posted at https://swimupstream.substack.com/p/over-consumption-is-the-biggest-elephant
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CW: food
You ever consume food for nutrients? #food #eating #consuming #nutrients #digestion #comestibles #relatableHumanContent #IAmTotallyHuman
