<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="headline-container" style="margin: 6px 0px 20px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h1 class="headline h1" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; position: relative; line-height: 1.13;"><span style="font-size: 14px;" class="">People who try to be environmentally-friendly by buying less stuff are happier, study claims</span></h1></div><div class="widget__subheadline" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><h2 class="widget__subheadline-text h2" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.5; display: inline;"><p style="display: inline; font-size: 14px;" class="">Unsurprisingly, the results showed that the more materialistic a person was, the less likely they were to engage in reduced consumption.</p></h2></div><div class="post-author-list" style="margin: 0px 5px 0px 0px; vertical-align: top; line-height: 14px; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div class="post-author" style="display: inline-block; margin-right: 4px; white-space: nowrap;"><a href="https://bigthink.com/u/emilyreynolds" style="color: rgb(226, 95, 31); text-decoration: none;" class=""></a><a href="https://bigthink.com/u/emilyreynolds" class="post-author__name" style="color: rgb(226, 95, 31); text-decoration: none; display: block; vertical-align: middle; font-weight: 700; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 1.42;">EMILY REYNOLDS</a></div></div><span class="post-date" style="margin-top: 0px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; color: rgb(111, 111, 111); font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">09 November, 2019</span><div class=""><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><font color="#6f6f6f" face="Montserrat" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(111, 111, 111); font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><a href="https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/buy-less-stuff" class="">https://bigthink.com/personal-growth/buy-less-stuff</a></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="orphans: 2; widows: 2;" class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">********************</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Verdana; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEMjxT_xyGfMqQV0nbJXoIgoqGQgEKhAIACoHCAowxqmICzDg_IYDMIGkmwY?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Climate change has changed our environment. Now it's impacting the economy</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Climate change and economics are inextricably linked - and the relationship is only becomign more pronounced.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMMapiAsw4PyGAw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">Sydney Morning Herald</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Sep 11</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CBMif2h0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnRyZWVodWdnZXIuY29tL2Vudmlyb25tZW50YWwtcG9saWN5LzcwLWFtZXJpY2Fucy10aGluay1lbnZpcm9ubWVudGFsLXByb3RlY3Rpb24tbW9yZS1pbXBvcnRhbnQtZWNvbm9taWMtZ3Jvd3RoLmh0bWzSAYMBaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cudHJlZWh1Z2dlci5jb20vZW52aXJvbm1lbnRhbC1wb2xpY3kvYW1wLzcwLWFtZXJpY2Fucy10aGluay1lbnZpcm9ubWVudGFsLXByb3RlY3Rpb24tbW9yZS1pbXBvcnRhbnQtZWNvbm9taWMtZ3Jvd3RoLmh0bWw?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">70% of Americans think the environment is more important than economic growth</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Turns out, environmental issues are not about awareness. People get it.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Treehugger</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); min-height: 15px;" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""></span><br class=""></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/articles/CAIiEIIa70afTleD-YXBXUfaoZ4qGQgEKhAIACoHCAowjMqjCjCJhZwBMKDUywM?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">The False Choice Between Economic Growth and Combatting Climate Change</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(32, 33, 36); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="-webkit-font-kerning: none;" class="">Carolyn Kormann writes on relationship between economic growth and carbon emissions, which William Nordhaus, who won the Nobel Prize in Economic ...</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(17, 85, 204); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; -webkit-text-stroke-color: rgb(17, 85, 204); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""><span style="text-decoration: underline; -webkit-font-kerning: none;" class=""><a href="https://news.google.com/publications/CAAqBwgKMIzKowowiYWcAQ?hl=en-US&gl=US&ceid=US%3Aen" class="">The New Yorker</a></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 12px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(32, 33, 36); -webkit-text-stroke-width: initial; 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