I used to be a fervent advocate of consumer activism—that is, voting with our dollars. I still do this whenever I can, but it has become a marketing scam. To take only one example, bleaching paper towels and toilet paper to make them white requires dioxins, which are very toxic wastes. But the only place I can find light brown unbleached paper products is at my local boutique “natural foods” store—and it is prohibitively expensive compared with the bleached (and dioxin-polluting) kind. And as Bob Dylan once observed, “Most people don’t do what they believe in; they just do what’s most convenient, and then they repent.” This could well be the epitaph of our industrial consumer society! Convenience sells. Repentance is coming, big time!