Consumerism round-up

Yesterday I gave you a climate change set of links. This one is themed too. No surprise it's consumerism!

• Would you take more care with your unwanted electronics if you knew they were poisoning African children 
• There is a place called Garbage City and it's what happens when we can't control our rubbish
• Which is why you should get rid of useless crap (and other reasons too)
  
• Gerald Hiestand has a poem on the poison of materialism 
• Mark Meynell shows up the difference between kingdom and corporate culture 
• While the US government is particularly generous, the American people are. Some interesting facts - the more you earn the less you give, and religious people are more generous than secular people (despite what atheists say)
• Andy Lowe quotes Adrian Beard on advertising 
• McMurray does a good job of adbusting a very expensive Christmas 
• Jeremy points out that despite massive economic growth there are more poor people in Britain now than before the boom