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WHEN I heard the news that Amazon is making sales of $11,000 every second of the lockdown, my initial reaction was weary resignation. You probably don’t eat bushmeat, but Western consumerism adds to the deforestation and habitat destruction that increasingly . The world is in turmoil due to a virus unleashed in part by greed, and how do we respond? By going shopping.
There was a stab of guilt too: I don’t think of myself as a materialist, but I’ve become a regular user of online retailers, buying things I don’t really…
