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Conference on alternatives to the current consumption model (11/12/2019)

The environmental organization will develop the event HAZ next Sunday 15, an act in which it is encouraged to make new products instead of buying them, in a context of high level of consumption that is generated at Christmas

Workshops will be held on creation, reuse and repair of products as an alternative to hyper-consumption

Greenpeace recalls that mass consumption and the industrial activity that sustains it are behind climate change and rising temperatures

Two weeks before the beginning of Christmas, the local Greenpeace group in Murcia, along with other social groups, will hold the alternative consumption days HAZ on reuse, repair and recycling of products and materials next Sunday, December 15 in the Urban Garden from Santa Eulalia (Murcia).

The conference, organized together with 'Murcia by bike', 'La Solar', 'Modalogia' and 'Residuo Cero Región de Murcia', will begin at 12 in the morning and will accommodate workshops on clothing exchange, soap production Craft or bicycle repair.

In addition, conferences will be held on the impact of intensive livestock on the environment, the need to progress in sustainable mobility, the problem of plastics or 100% sustainable energy models.

On the recreational level, the organizers will offer a popular meal to all attendees as well as concerts by Marta Espín, Bennie & Rachel, Pedro Pedreño, Clara and Alba, and Raúl Rocamora.

All information on the agenda can be consulted here.

To participate in the conference you must register (for free)

The unsustainable current consumption model

Appointments like Christmas take the most consumerist side of people.

In fact the figures speak for themselves: this Christmas every Spanish household will spend 600 euros on average, which makes us the second European country with the greatest intention of spending.

To maintain this consumption, raw materials are needed whose extraction grows without brake.

In 1970, about 22 million tons of primary materials (metals, fossil fuels and other natural resources such as wood and cereals) were extracted from the Earth.

In 2010, that figure soared to 70 million tons and it is estimated that in 2060 we will need 190 million tons every year to meet the demand.

“Moments like Christmas are just the tip of the iceberg of predatory consumerism.

Only what was consumed in Europe, the production and handling of clothing, footwear and home textiles used approximately 1.3 tons of primary raw materials and 104 cubic meters of water per person from the EU (about 85% of these materials and 92% of the water was used in other regions of the world) â€, said Celia Ojeda, responsible for the Greenpeace Spain Consumer campaign.

“In 2017, this production caused an estimated 654 kg of equivalent CO2 emissions per inhabitant of the EU, making textiles the fifth source of CO2 emissions related to private consumption (3).

This is why Greenpeace demands that sustainable consumption and the promotion of alternatives such as reduction, repair and exchange.

The most sustainable is what you already have, make it last. â€

Greenpeace action for Black Friday

Greenpeace held last Friday, November 29, the day on which Black Friday was held, a public action in Madrid's Gran Vía, where many of the stores in the Spanish capital accumulate, to denounce the damage to the environment of the consumerism.

For that reason, four activists deployed a giant canvas of 180m2 with the message 'Consumerism = Climate Change';

while another dozen activists of the organization displayed other banners in stores such as Zara, Nike, El Corte Inglés or Amazon with claims such as "Consumerism drowns the planet" or "Predatory production model".

Source: Greenpeace

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