If you are unable to view this email, click here to view in browser.

Weekly transmission from Adbusters Media Foundation

Hey all you lovely people,

Can you believe the words “fossil” and “fuels” — together — were included in the final COP26 communiqué?

That’s right. For the first time in 30 years of summit meetings, negotiators dared mention the number-one (not-so-secret) source of climate-warping, humanity-imperiling greenhouse gases. “Overconsumption” by the richest one billion people on the planet, on the other hand, has yet to be included in any COP communiqué.

This lays bare how gravely our world leaders have mishandled the climate crisis during the last several decades.

We keep pointing our fingers at other countries, but your average American consumes three times as much as someone in China and ten times as much as someone in India. We are the most voracious consumers in the world. The problem is us!

Friday, November 26th is Black Friday — or as we like to call it, Buy Nothing Day — is a good place to begin curbing our appetites.

Here are some ways to go:

Take the personal plunge. Vow not to buy anything for 24 hours. Leave your phone and wallet at home. Don’t go to work. Walk out of school. Find out what that feels like. Partway through the day, surprise! You might have an epiphany.

Spread some activist mischief. Take part in a direct action. Make a show of cutting up one of your credit cards. Clog up the big-box queues with a Whirly-mart conga line of empty carts. Walk through the mall like a brainless zombie. Anything to disrupt the buying frenzy.

Become a Third-Force revolutionary. Vow to live simply. Go vegan. Get a bike. Share your stuff. Think about how far you’d go to stave off a long dark age. Would you block a road? Get arrested? Even blow up a pipeline?

We’re running out of time to make things good.

Start something on Buy Nothing Day!

For the Wild,

The Third Force

Join The Third Force Collective here
Subscribe to our magazine here
Talk to our Art Director here

Talk to our Editor here

Visit our Culture Shop here
Donate to our movement here

Become a patron here

This email was sent to [email protected]

You received this email because you are subscribed to

Adbusters or The Third Force Collective newsletter updates.

Unsubscribe newsletter updates here