X-Ray Spex's music caught the wave of the moment, softening punk's anarchic tone with tracks about subjects including environmental destruction and consumerism.
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Long before it was fashionable, Adams was an ecologically attuned artist – a witness to the beauty of the natural world and a chronicler of its slow destruction by industrialisation, consumerism and pollution.
But Mr. Vogrin's art, rendered in bright sign enamel and fed by his outrage at social injustice, violence, consumerism and environmental destruction, is vigorous, unsettling and insistent.
His gospel subsequently took on the trinity of consumerism, corporate greed, and environmental destruction.
In an interview, the Night Wolves' leader denounced the West and said: "For the first time we showed resistance to the global Satanism, the growing savagery of Western Europe, the rush to consumerism that denies all spirituality, the destruction of traditional values, all this homosexual talk, this American democracy".
He became the subject of sermons on the morality of consumerism; his work was attacked for its wanton destruction; a priest and psychiatrist offered counselling.
Instead of feeling guilty about the huge gaps between wealthy and poor, the ways consumerism causes global warming, or how our daily pleasures cause rainforest destruction and despoil the sea, we can drink a few cups of fair-trade coffee, eat a rainforest crunch bar and instantly feel better.
For years now, people have been complaining about how the Saudi government is ruining Mecca with its obnoxious renovation: luxury hotels and runaway consumerism, that awful clock-tower looming over the Ka'ba and the destruction of numerous holy sites to build malls and public toilets.
Meanwhile its lyrics fling images of consumerism as brainwashing and distraction, and of partying toward self-destruction, none of which stopped fans from dancing.
