"Advertising has tripled the level of our consumption and it is now a very devastating ecological force - climate change is driven by advertising,’ Lasn said. ‘We have to ask ourselves: Do we really need a one trillion dollar per-year ad industry to tell us to consume more? It doesn’t make any sense - we already consume enough.
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— Kalle Lasn, founder and editor in chief of Adbusters magazine. Read the rest of my interview with him as well as my story about how advertising affects our attitude towards the environment at the Ecologist.