Gloom-and-doom mongering can be self-indulgent for the mongerers, and de-motivating for the mongereed. All credit therefore to Adbusters for breaking that pattern with a brilliant come-back issue. It’s about “The Day The World Ends”, and contains some great writing. “”The collapse was only a problem so long as we thought it could be reversed. As soon as everyone gave up, things got better”. “Well, you finally got mass participation in ‘Buy Nothing Day “.