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| Originally Posted by K1W1 Hi,
Anyone who participates here and thinks or says Boats are not important should find another to place to post. |
I don't think the original poster said boats are unimportant any more than he said clothes are unimportant.
However, he makes a good point - buying things just because they're there for purchase is not intelligent long-term planning. Maintaining a high level of consumerism encourages "more of the same" from the companies that benefit most (and often unintentionally) from said consumerism.
If we "buy nothing that is not absolutely necessary... no cars, boats, vacations, clothes, treats" that doesn't mean those things are unimportant. It just means we should be buying only the things we
need. If we have 30 pairs of Italian shoes in pristine condition, do we need 31? If we have 5 cars in the collection, do we need 6? If we have last year's BMW, do we need this year's to replace it? If we have 50' of boat, do we need the new 52' just because it's new? Can we go boating more locally, or can our vacations be taken nearby (for example, instead of flying to New Zealand this year, go check out the Maine coast).
The oil companies don't care as long as we keep buying things. We might not drive as many miles, but goods are still being delivered, plastics are still being produced, oil is still being consumed. When we slow down our consumption of goods, every industry feels the pinch, and it becomes much easier to hold the oil behemoths responsible when all eyes are upon them.