Don't fall into the trap...

From adbusters.org:

On the busiest shopping day of the year, citizens of the US will join people in over 30 countries around the world to enjoy a holiday from the consumer frenzy.

Now in its twelfth year, Buy Nothing Day is a 24-hour consumer fast and celebration of sustainable living. Over one million people around the world are expected to help BND 2003 break through First World denial about the consequences of overconsumption.

People in the industrialized countries make up just 20% of the world population but consume 80% of the world's resources and produce 80% of the toxic wastes.

"Is our level of consumption moral and ecologically sustainable? I challenge the media to put that question to their communities and their experts," says Kalle Lasn, founder of Adbusters Media Foundation, the Vancouver-based group that has been promoting Buy Nothing Day since 1993.

For background information, visit: www.adbusters.org