ENV100H1 Lecture Notes - Super Size Me, Bright Promise, Thomas Berry

• School: UTSG
• Department: School of Environment
• Course: ENV100H1
• Professor: Stephen Scharper

Document Summary

Religion of consumerism decries mickey mouse as the antichrist and warns the imminent shopocalypse, where by all persons, things, and values will be rendered mere commodities. The stop shopping choir and the not buying it band to proclaim the gospel of non-consumption. The fist time since the great depression, us household personal saving are below zero and 60% of. American consumers are venturing out to the malls this december with at least ,000 worth of long- term debt on high-interest credit cards. They will spend half a trillion dollars and create 5 million tonnes of extra waste. Spurlock- supersize me- if you can make somebody laugh, you can make somebody listening. Harmony with creation is grounded deeply in ones relationship with the land. For most native americans, it is impossible to speak of a personal identity apart from the land. The land itself can health the land becomes the means for transcending time and reaching through other generations.