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Amazon belched 68.25 million metric tons of CO2 into the atmosphere in 2024 alone. 

That’s equivalent to Mount St. Helens erupting 3 times.
We know they’re choking your inbox with “Black Friday Week” deals right now . . . so here’s a dead-easy way to reduce your footprint and live a more authentic life:

SWEAR OFF AMAZON.

If you’re feeling really hot and bothered — like Gaia herself — cancel your account and share this visual meme everywhere when you tell your friends.

Hey America, are you ready for a non-tariff solution for balancing your books?

When Trump declared an all-out trade war with the rest of the world by slapping "reciprocal" tariffs on pretty much every country, his message was: the ATM machine is closed! All these countries are ripping America off! It stops now!

In his view, whenever there's a trade imbalance, there's also a power imbalance — the one who's buying more than they're selling is getting hosed. Tariffs are supposed to restore some fairness. "Trade deficits are subsidies, pure and simple."

But that's not true. Not only is it not true, it's not the point. There's a piece of the story that's missing here, and Trump seems to be the only one who doesn't see it. The reason all these countries are selling too much to America is that America is asking for it. It's demanding more and more and more.

It cannot satisfy its appetites with its own home cooking: it's gotta order out.

There's an obvious way to fix this, and it's not tariffs. It's much simpler. But at the same time it's exponentially harder, because it insults "the American way" — that god-given right to scratch every itch, indulge every whim, put everything on plastic and don't pick up the phone when the creditors come calling.

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If this makes you uncomfortable, good.

If this makes you angry, even better.

You can blame the corporations and the billionaires — but you're the one helping them do it.

The richest billion people — and yes, that means you — are cooking the world alive. The top 10% of humanity produces half of all carbon emissions. We've known this for fifty years and still we choose convenience over survival.

We fly when we could take trains. We drive when we could walk. We buy garbage we don't need, made by people we'll never meet, shipped across oceans we're poisoning, all in the name of grotesque and decadent existence.

The villain of this catastrophe isn't out there, lurking in the shadows.

It's within.

It's you.

You are the hurricane.

You are the drop of water melting off a glacier.

You are extinction.

But if you get your shit together, if you cut your consumption by 25%, then we have a chance of making it through the 21st century.

So here's the Black Friday play:

On November 28, opt out of the murder-suicide pact.

Buy nothing.

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Play hard.

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Watch this TV spot that kicked off Buy Nothing Day 30 years ago.

Simplify, simplify, simplify!

Swear off clocks.

Instead, tune in to the rhythms of the turning world. Locate yourself in space and time by the feeling you get when you look up at the sky, by the sound of birdsong in the morning. And, later in the day, by the mood of the people around you.

Then slow down. Whenever you're even a little overextended, insert a sacred pause, a micro-Sabbath, right there in your day.

Then declutter. Get rid of your car, your dishwasher, your air conditioner, your electric can opener. Not all at once: take your time. Do it bit by bit when it feels right to make those edits to your life.

Then stop visiting supermarkets and go radically local instead.

Then wean yourself off your phone till you're only on it for a tiny fraction of every day — be more present than ever.

Sounds crazy I know. But is it any crazier than what's happening to us right now — most of us half-assing our way through life with weak stabs at change that don't cut the sadness and anxiety one bit?

Think of the all-in as Plan B — because Plan A isn't working so well — a last-ditch attempt to yank yourself out of the corpo-consumer-capitalist death machine before it totally engulfs you.

How to Spark a Real Revolution

Our editor in chief Kalle Lasn sat down with Daniel Pinchbeck to talk about the big ideas from Manifesto for World Revolution, the history of Adbusters, BUMs, Gen Z uprisings . . . how to save the world . . . and how to wobble.

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We marched. We chanted. We boycotted. We lost.

67,000 dead. 170,000 wounded.
Two million displaced, starving, grieving.
Every street bombed. Every family broken.
And even after the so-called “peace deal,” the war crimes keep coming.

There’s only one play left.

Some call him a terrorist.

Many, like us, call him the Palestinian Mandela — for leading his people in their struggle against military occupation and apartheid.

He is the one Netanyahu fears more than Hamas.

That’s why his name was struck from the last prisoner exchange.

Why he’s been beaten, intimidated, left to rot in solitary confinement.

Why even Trump is now talking about his release.

His name is Marwan Barghouti.

Let’s send a message to Emmanuel Macron, Keir Starmer, Mark Carney and Anthony Albanese, that it’s not enough to just “recognize” Palestine, tell them they must free Palestine’s Mandela.

If you truly mean Free Palestine, this is your moment to prove it.

Sign this petition.

Become a founding member of the BUMs party

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We know it's a long shot but as soon as we have fifty thousand members signed up, we will hold a communal brainstorm and decide what the next step in our evolution should be.

"Existence is a free gift from the sun."

Long before we humans existed, the lonely Earth cooled and the sun shone upon it until one day, Hallelujah, life strikes up out of the soup.

Three and a half billion years later here we are with the tools we've fashioned to make things easier for ourselves: Super computers and AI and UberEats and everything we could possibly want just the click of a button away. We've made art, built civilizations, unfurled the mysteries of the cosmos, and hell . . . didn't we make it all the way to the moon! And all because the sun was shining down upon us.

That's what makes what has happened in the last half-century so dispiriting. We've pushed life on Earth and squeezed it and expanded it and now we're destroying it.

How did things go from that to this? The Earth's simple gift of abundant sunshine to the takers we have become — voracious marauders who can't stop consuming, can't stop spewing carbon into the atmosphere, can't stop producing waste?

Frederich Hunterwasser's quote says it all. The history of our species in eight words. What came next is on us: the tragic coda of how we mucked it all up.

— KL

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Western WEIRDness

Hot off the press is the newest report of the Global Flourishing Study — an ongoing project managed by Harvard and Baylor which checks in with hundreds of thousands of folks in 22 countries to see how they're doing. "Flourishing" might best be described as truly crushing this thing called life. You're happy, you're healthy, you're at peace. Once again this year, the Scandinavian countries came out on top.

The big surprise was who came out on the bottom: Japan, the UK, and the United States. Countries with among the highest GDP in the world.

WTF?

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