Shopomania
Marilyn Stanley
, Kirsten Lyon
, Dawn Macdonald
, Erika Sager
, LJ Law
, Jude Castillo
, Shayla Bradley
, Barry Kazimer
, Debbie Rodgers
, Natasa Ilic
, Linda Leitch
, Sarah Schwartz
, Vanessa S
, Joe Mitchell
, Marjorie Roy
, Christopher Rossignol
, Noelle Walsh
, Pamela Roberts Griffith
, Dani Kat
, Melissa Poremba
, Sandra Perry
, Andrea Gillespie
, Mary Therrien
, Florence Tremblay-Béland
, Colleen Coco Collins
, Vanessa Charbonneau-Dinelle
, Sunshine Gudlaugson
, Susan Baues
, Vanessa Seto
, Margo Beredjiklian
, Malika Ait Laouam
, Bev Bellrose
, Patricia Johnson
, Cathi McLean
, Chris Carvalho
, Melissa Kohlman
, Jen Bailey
, Jenn George
, Hoda Montazeri
, Leah Paulgaard
, zelda dwyer
, Andrea Pole
, Phyllis VanDusen
, Emma Sim
, Rose Hately
, P. Thompson
, Randi Ann Doll
, Alex Henderson
, Candace Fertile
, Elizabeth Ivanovich
, Rachel Edmonds
, Carl Scott
, Rodney Cross
, Benita Hartwell
, Megan Brodie
, Janet Meisner
, Kim Cappellina
, Susan Terendy
, Deb Philippon
, Kat Sommer-Derksen
, Linda Hall
, Maria Zuppardi
, Mary Lester
, Naomi MacKinnon
, Susan Jang
, Heather Belliveau
, Yolande Thivierge
, Laurie Burns
, Maria Mclean
, Mary Mexis
, Maureen Brownlee
, Margaret Lindo
, Elle Andra-Warner
, Nancy Steinhausen
, Marissa Yip-Young
, Natalie Mudri
, Janice Cournoyer
, Meradith Anderson
, Lisa Mallia
, Andrea Mack
, Lynn Andrews
, Heather Chong
, Kathleen Mary Kilmer
, Valerie Hildebrand
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Sassy and satirical, Shopomania is an economic, environmental and social study. This light-hearted, dark-souled dictionary of coined words, or “shoponyms,” takes readers on a roller-coaster ride of avaricious antics and outrageous profligacy.
Shopping in one form or another has existed for millennia but, aside from a few slumps, each generation has outdone the previous one. In the past fifty years, shopping—and its associated carbon footprint—has grown exponentially.
Berton argues that if we invented today’s consumer culture, then we can invent something to replace it. We can do a better job of making the cycle of stuff truly circular rather than linear. We can be more environmentally, socially and politically conscious of what we buy and how it comes to us—and where it will go after we are finished with it. A species that has made shopping ubiquitous can figure all these things out with little more than co-operation and creativity, and by asking if it is really necessary to “own it now” as we have been told—endlessly—since childhood. Must we possess a thing to enjoy it? Do we really need all that stuff?
