8 Ways You Can Impoverish The 1% — And Help The Environment.

Frank Parker
4 min readSep 22, 2020

The premise of this article is that the wealthiest 1% got rich — and continue to do so — by selling us stuff we don’t really need. So all it takes to redress the balance is for us to buy less of that stuff.

Thrift is a plant with small pink flowers that thrives on coastal sites. It’s also a long forgotten virtue that we could all do with bringing back to life. Image from S.N.Pattenden at Unsplash

1. Don’t change your car this year — or next. Your car is still doing the job you bought it for — taking you to work, the kids to school, the family to the…

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Frank Parker

Frank is a retired Engineer from England now living in Ireland. He is trying to learn and share the lessons of history.