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Wallet Activism: How to Use Every Dollar You Spend, Earn, and Save as a Force for Change by Tanja Hester
5.0
"You won the coin flip and got assigned the role of rich Monopoly player in life, even if you're only rich in a global sense, and you can either get complacent and eat all the cookies, or you can fight your way out of that mental trap and use your privilege for good."
Tanja Hester offers intersectional and approachable ways use money to create change, with a top priority of decarbonizing. She recognizes that change will take individual efforts as well as collective action. One of the tips that will stay with me is rethinking financial decisions as a "wallet activist" by asking who it serves, can everyone do it, if it's too cheap, and what I'm helping to create by contributing profits to an entity. Instead of focusing on what to consume, she asks us to consider whether to consume, with practical tips for choosing everything from your bank to your groceries.
For people who want to do better for earth and each other and avoid upholding deeply unjust and harmful systems - this is a great resource that will ask you to aim for actual progress, not perfection or easy wins.
Tanja Hester offers intersectional and approachable ways use money to create change, with a top priority of decarbonizing. She recognizes that change will take individual efforts as well as collective action. One of the tips that will stay with me is rethinking financial decisions as a "wallet activist" by asking who it serves, can everyone do it, if it's too cheap, and what I'm helping to create by contributing profits to an entity. Instead of focusing on what to consume, she asks us to consider whether to consume, with practical tips for choosing everything from your bank to your groceries.
For people who want to do better for earth and each other and avoid upholding deeply unjust and harmful systems - this is a great resource that will ask you to aim for actual progress, not perfection or easy wins.