The grabbing of presents, the tearing of paper, the ripping of boxes.

Followed by the piling up of garbage, and the overflowing of trash bins.

Christmas is the time of abundance. Too much food, too many presents, too much gift wrapping. And who would have it any other way?

A growing number of environmentalists, that's who. Especially when it comes to the gift wrapping.

"People don't think about what they throw away," says William "Reverend Billy" Talen, of the Church of Stop Shopping.

This cheeky performance-art collective, which inveighs against consumerism in all its forms (they were Neil Young's opening act for his 2024-2025 "Love Earth Tour"), has a lot to say about Christmas.

The excess and wastefulness of the season, with its heaps of presents and mountains of credit card deb

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