I don’t usually place You Tube videos on my blog – just because I don’t like how they look – I think they look ugly, but that’s probably my snobbery coming out!
This video is worth watching and has challenged me – should we join The Advent Conspiracy?
I had a little discussion about this after Matins this morning in the cathedral and the main opinion was that we should but then the other view was put across – if we did buy less, would we then be contributing to the down-turn in our manufacturing based economy which would then result in people losing their jobs in the run up to or quite soon after Christmas?
What a dilemma! What should be the correct Christian response here? To buy less and take people out of poverty, or continue as we are and keep people out of poverty? I think I lean strongly to the former – but it is not as clear cut a decision as I immediately thought when I first watched this video last night. Is it even possible to have a definitive Christian response here?
How have we got to the situation where we need to buy crap we don’t need, and know we are buying crap we don’t need or won’t be wanted, to ensure people still have a living? Pretty bizarre!
The Shiny Headed Prophet 
Simple answer: Buy less and give to charities that alleviate poverty. That way your money goes diectly to address the concern and we can start focusing on what is of true worth.
Cracking Video…really challenging, especially the 450billion to 10 billion.Agree with you Darell, the answer has got to be simple, just 10 billion less spent could pay for the world to have water.How on earth did we get ourselves into this mess?? Simple answer to that too…I’m greedy!?!Malc