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The French government has launched a campaign encouraging people not to buy new clothes in Black Friday sales.

The advert shows a man asking for advice in a shop before an assistant tells him not to buy anything, to help the planet and his finances.

The minister for ecological transition - responsible for promoting sustainability - Christophe Béchu, is behind the campaign.

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[-] Merwyn@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

And this minister got in a troubles because of this and got attacked by the minister of Economy because "people need to buy stuff for the economy to work bruh".

For once that someone in the government was doing something new in the good direction ...

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