1.1.1: They (the products) seem amusing on the first day of Christmas, daft on the second, embarrassing on the third.
1.1.2: Only 1 per cent of material being used in the economy remains in use six months after sale
1.1.3: Even the goods we might have expected to hold on to are soon condemned to destruction through either planned obsolescence or perceived obsolescence.
1.1: materials we buy are not used for long after the purchase
1: We use materials for short-lived pleasure that have long-lasting consequences for the planet

2.1: They are designed to elicit thanks, perhaps a snigger or two, and then be thrown away.
2: Many products we buy don’t have any use at all

3.1: People in eastern Congo are massacred to facilitate smartphone upgrades of ever diminishing marginal utility
3.2: Forests are felled to make ''personalised heart-shaped wooden cheese board sets''
3.3: Rivers are poisoned to manufacture talking fish
3.4: manufacturing and consumption are responsible for more than half of our carbon dioxide production
3: The creation and purchases of these products are wasting, diminishing and destroying the planet’s resources

4.1.1: Growth depends on selling the utterly useless.
4.1: Governments cut taxes, deregulate business, manipulate interest rates to stimulate spending
4.2.1: Those who resist are denounced as lunatics
4.2: This is pathological consumption rendered so normal by advertising and by the media that we scarcely notice
4.3: Governments, the media and advertisers have associated consumption with prosperity and happiness
4.4.1: But seldom do the engineers of these policies stop and ask, ''spending on what?''
4.4.2: The growth of inequality has accompanied the consumer boom
4.4.3: In the US in 2010, a remarkable 93 per cent of the growth in incomes accrued to the top 1 per cent of the population
4.4: The government doesn’t realise its making a mistake
4: Increased consumption and spending of useless products with negative worldly implications is being encouraged by the Government and media

5: All it shows is that you don’t care

C: Everybody should stop trashing the planet by buying pointless products for others to show them that they care about them (even for Christmas).