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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by paganel on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @06:19AM (#25926853)
Not throwing furniture away every few years will seriously help solve the problem. Of course, that would mean fewer sales for companies like IKEA.
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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by tonyedgecombe on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @08:20AM (#25927881)
They already think the Western world has reached peak stuff:

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2016/jan/18/weve-hit-pe...

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Re:IKEA buys 11,000 acres of U.S. forest to keep it from bei... by paganel on Wednesday January 27, 2021 @09:33AM (#25928696)
Of course they would say that.

And even if that were true, their prospective sales don't depend on the "Western" world only, not to say anything about the fact that equating "the Western world does not buy stuff anymore" with "the world doesn't buy stuff anymore" is peak orientalist (but this being standard corporate communication it does not surprise me).

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