Name: Dialogues #19 - General Theme: Mass Consumerism
Start: 2025-04-02T18:00:00+02:00
End: 2025-04-02T22:00:00+02:00
Location: Horse Hug

Dialogues #19 - General Theme: Mass Consumerism

Please register either on Luma or the Meetup app.
https://lu.ma/uqg3ozp5
https://www.meetup.com/easy-dialogues/events/306804014/
!!! Notices !!!- You can bring snacks to share, but please consume at the bar. 🥐🥧- Dogs are welcomed! 🐶🦴- 18h00 - Doors open.🚪🍻- 18h15 – Introductions 💬 and topics selection📝.

🫵🫵 ━━━ General Theme and Topic ideas ━━━🫵🫵
How often do we buy things we don’t really need? We all engage in mass consumerism, whether it is with new tech upgrades, health trends like the avocado craze, online subscriptions to entertainment, crazes for new home decor, convenience goods on busy days and trips, and the excessive packaging that comes with it. All of this has an impact on the environment.How do you personally navigate sustainable consumption?Is it the individual’s responsibility to make better choices, or is it an inevitable consequence of larger forces beyond our control?What is the right way and wrong way to approach consumerism?Can consumerism be purely a rational activity?Is retail therapy a harmless coping mechanism?

🌱🌳 ━━━ WHAT TO KNOW ━━━🌿🍃
This event is:- perfect for new people to join!🎉🖐️- unique in its debate facilitation strategy.💡🎭- rich in its diversity of ideas and opinions. 👨‍🎓👩‍🌾🧑‍💼👮‍♀️- a place to share or to just listen.💬💭- a safe space for discussing whatever you want. 🗯️🚂♻️💲🐋- right for you if you know nothing on climate change.🌎🌍🌏- right for you if you know a lot on climate change.😵‍💫- more about sharing thoughts than doing stuff. 🗣️🗣️👂☺️
This event is not:- about advocating for any specific change. 🤠🙉🙈- a lecture or presentation on climate change. 🤓📽️- an event full of very serious and intimidating people 😒

🌱🌳 ━━━ ABOUT US ━━━ 🌿🍃
Earth & Society Dialogues is a group aiming to bring together people with interest in discussing issues related to climate change and the coping of societies in the Anthropocene — the current geological age where humans are the biggest driver of geological and ecological change.
Our events are a healthy discussion forum, open to people from all backgrounds, that aims at providing the time and space for new thoughts to emerge, and ideas to spread.
Each of our meetings has a general theme, however, the discussion is led by the participants themselves. This process starts by the participants suggesting their own topics related to the general theme. After which, people divide into small groups where they get to know each other better and dive deeper into their topics of interest.
You don’t need to be very enthusiastic about sustainability to enjoy this meeting; in fact, many of the participants aren’t. You just need to be open to listen, understand, and communicate with no judgement.
Happy to see you there!