Graphic captured an enormous topic

Re “No purchase necessary,” Opinion, Nov. 23

Jonathan Barnbrook’s graphic Op-Ed encompassed everything many have been thinking throughout these Bush years. I am saving it as a visual reminder of what is wrong, which is an enormous subject to grasp.

Gwen Gordon

Sierra Madre

Within a decade or so, we will see this graphic column as chillingly prophetic as we behold a landscape ravaged not just environmentally but socially, morally and politically. A foretaste: We have already sold our economy to China and turned consumerism into a national religion. We can still avoid the upcoming shopocalypse. Let us turn away from the mania of “shop till you drop” and substitute a creed that is far more humane and spiritually satisfying: “Consume less, live more.”

Michael C. Beck

Glendale