If you want to jump straight to the tips, they start at 4:26. I thought it was important to give some background into the broader 'why' of overconsumption and its societal forces.
I hope you like this video! It's the most ambitious one I've made so far, and included a ton of research. I've included all my sources below!
Slow down in Style's video — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVV9ED8LENY&list=WL&index=6&t=1466s
SOURCES:
Fast Fashion and Its Environmental Impacts, eart.org — https://earth.org/fast-fashions-detrimental-effect-on-the-environment/
Is Temu Bad for the Environment? An In-depth Examination, greenmatch.co — https://www.greenmatch.co.uk/blog/environmental-impact-of-temu
List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor, U.S. Department of Labor — https://dol.gov/agencies/ilab/reports/child-labor/list-of-goods
A Consumer Values Orientation for Materialism and Its Measurement: Scale Development and Validation (Richins and Dawson 1992) — https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/19/3/303/1786697
Materialism: Trait aspects of living in the material world (Belk 1985) —https://psycnet.apa.org/record/1986-10785-001
Materialism and Well-Being: A Conflicting Values Perspective (Burroughs and Rindfleisch 2002) — https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/344429?read-now=1&seq=1#page_scan_tab_contents
Bidirectional Dynamics of Materialism and Loneliness: Not Just a Vicious Cycle (Pieters 2013) — https://academic.oup.com/jcr/article-abstract/40/4/615/2907485?redirectedFrom=fulltext
Marketing 5.0: Technology for Humanity by Philip Kotler — https://www.amazon.com/Marketing-5-0-Philip-Kotler/dp/1119668514
Awe Expands People's Perception of Time, Alters Decision Making, and Enhances Well-
Being (Rudd et al. 2012) — https://www.jstor.org/stable/23355506?read-now=1&seq=5#page_scan_tab_contents
Modeling the Future of Religion in America, PEW — https://www.pewresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2022/09/US-Religious-Projections_FOR-PRODUCTION-9.13.22.pdf
In case you're wondering how I accessed academic sources without being an academic, I used my local library!