...of North America. The pudgy pink pig wiggles and snorts with glee as an ominous voice-over states: "The average North American consumes five times more...times more than a person from India Give it a rest, America. Tomorrow is Buy Nothing Day." The pig rips a hearty belch; you suddenly feel queasy. Joe Chemo...

...'The average North American,' says a voiceover, 'consumes five times more than a Mexican, ten tunes more than a Chinese person, and thirty times more than a person from India. We are the most voracious consumers in the world... a world that could die because of the way we North...

...the face of humanity." Entering into specifics, Sacks reports that the average North American today consumes "five times more than a Mexican, ten times more than a Chinese, thirty times more than an Indian." While nearly onefourth of the world's population lives beneath the...