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The commodification of life itself: how advertising promotes endless growth, and how it could be otherwise

In this guest blog, part of the Bad Publicity series, Dr Simon Mair from the university of York examines the role advertising plays in normalising and reproducing the cycle of capitalist Growth that drives ecological destruction. He ends with a call to reimagine advertising as something more than a tool of consumerism. …Continue reading The commodification of life itself: how advertising promotes endless growth, and how it could be otherwise