To the editor: For years, I’ve loved beginning my mornings with a double cappuccino and the Los Angeles Occasions. The looming collapse of democracy worldwide has drastically decreased that every day pleasure, till at this time. The “proper to restore” shopper motion illustrates simply how essential one-on-one human connections are (“How Repair Cafes turn broken stuff into a global anticonsumerist community,” June 9).
It is smart that the Restore Cafe motion started within the Netherlands. In 1997, I used to be visiting pals in Rotterdam once we wanted some lumber for a house undertaking. I assumed we’d go to a Dutch model of House Depot, however no. We discovered what was wanted at a recycling web site freed from cost, the place all the pieces from bricks and masonry to drywall and lumber was neatly displayed and prepared for pick-up. Our disposable shopper economic system in America has rather a lot to be taught.
Philip DiGiacomo, Ojai
