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Podcast: The Frankie Boyer Show
Episode: The Day the World Stops Shopping, Author J.B. MacKinnon
Description: J.B. MacKinnon joins us to discuss his book, The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves. The 21st century has brought a critical dilemma into sharp relief. We must stop shopping: Our consumer appetites are tearing the planet apart. Yet we can’t stop shopping: If we do, our economies collapse. J.B. MacKinnon is an award-winning journalist whose work has appeared in The New Yorker, National Geographic, and The Atlantic, as well as the Best American Science and Nature Writing anthologies. He is also the author of four books of nonfiction, including th...