The End of Packaging: Some Thoughts

Below is an excerpt from George Monbiot's Heat: How to Stop the Planet from Burning. A most interesting and well-researched series of ideas (as indeed the entire book is). If you found Tim Flannery's We Are the Weather Makers especially interesting, Monbiot's book will definitely be worth hunting down. Heat focuses more on the European (especially the UK-based) scenario and where Flannery writes in a rather avuncular, dinner conversation-like tone, Monbiot tackles the world of climate change head-on, with an ardent intensity.

Here he discusses the 'end of traditional shopping' and the 'end of packaging': in short, buy online/via TV/from a catalogue and have it delivered. Forget the over-aircon-ed, energy inefficient supermarket where you have to drive yourself... Read Monbiot in the continuation.