Sustainable consumption: The biggest challenge for advertising's superpower

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The advertising sector has spent more than a century persuading people to consume more ‘things' - can it now drive a shift towards more sustainable consumption, asks Anna Lungley from Dentsu International?

It's easy to write off consumption as something that goes completely against the grain of sustainability. Consumption is, after all, the act of using up our world's resources. But it's not as simple...

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