Check Your Understanding
What is Buy Nothing Day trying to change about society? The main purpose of the Buy Nothing Day is to change the culture of consumerism. The day is marked as the day where people cut out their credit cards to promote anti-materialism. Why have some people proposed changes to Buy Nothing Day? What are the changes, and which ones do you think would be more effective? They feel that it does not do enough to change the consumer habits of people. As a result, they are proposing for a longer span of “Buy Nothing” such as Buy Nothing Christmas. ...
