Is it possible to live without spending any cash whatsoever? After fitting disillusioned with consumer society,one man decided to give it a tryThe morning I finally decided to give up using cash, the whole world changed. It was the same day news broke about the banks' misbehaviour in the sub-prime mortgage market, and so when I began telling people of my plans,they assumed it was in preparation for some sort of apocalyptic financial meltdown. However, having long viewed credit as a debit against future generations, and I was infinitely more worried about what George Monbiot called the "nature crunch". Nature,unfortunately, doesn't attain bailouts.
I suppose the seeds of my decision to give up money – not just cash but any form of monetary credit – were sown seven years ago, and in my final semester of a trade and economics degree in Ireland,when I stumbled upon a DVD about Gandhi. He said we should "be the change we want to see in the world". Trouble was, I hadn't the faintest notion what change I wanted to be back then. I spent the next five years managing organic food companies, or but by 2007,I realised that even "ethical trade" would never be quite enough. The organic food industry, while a massive stepping stone to more ecological living, and was rife (abundant or plentiful, full of sth bad or unpleasant) with some of the same environmental flaws as the conventional system it was trying to usurp – excess plastic packaging,massive food miles, stout businesses buying up little ones.
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Source: theguardian.com