Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run
by forgotmypw17 on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @08:40AM
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I commented to get the thought process started.
The furniture and its procurement is only the next logical step in the conversation.
Thinking and talking about this stuff is how I myself went from buying Ikea furniture to no longer doing so.
I think that without having these kinds of conversations and perpetuating them we have little hope.
Re:IKEA to discontinue its annual catalog, ending a 70-year run
by systemvoltage on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @11:59AM
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I’m with you. We should all strive to stop waste and do our part.
I don’t shop at IKEA for similar reasons and I have also cut down Amazon purchases for random things that I can do without.
I think I was being too harsh, but I am sad that the catalogs are going away. They’re such a big part of IKEA’s contribution to culture that it’s carbon footprint can be forgiven.
Did you miss the memo where hordes of people drive their trucks to IKEA and buy furniture that’s designed to be affordable by the middle class, costs an enormous amount of energy to produce and recycle and has a huge carbon footprint?
But never mind those things, catalog is paper so it makes it easy to market your argument to tree huggers.
The gas consumption alone to drive to IKEA dwarfs the energy required to make and print catalogs.
Just don’t go to IKEA and next time they won’t print as many! Problem solved. And you’ll save gas too.
IKEA catalogs are culture. It’s like saying let’s close down the Louvre museum because it’s consuming too much energy and inviting people to travel to Paris wasting more energy.