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Our response to the next crisis must tackle consumerism

When the next crisis hits, we must resist the temptation to prop up existing patterns of consumption. Our planet can’t afford it.

By Rob Macquarie
Our response to the next crisis must tackle consumerism
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This article is part of ourEconomy's 'Preparing for the next crisis' series.

If there is one way the next economic crisis won’t be the same as the last, it will have to do with the state of our planet. In 2008, the Copenhagen Accord hadn’t been signed, let alone the Paris Agreement – or millions of schoolchildren missing Friday lessons to protest the terrifying future they will inherit.

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