Anxious economists debut giant-hamster ad

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The Impossible Hamster Club, created by an economic think tank called the New Economics Foundation, is opposed to "crazy consumption and really gross domestic product," two things I fully support, because I'm a gross, crazy consumer and proud of it. The group produced the animated clip below, which shows a hamster (the advertising animal du jour) growing to freakish size and destroying the world, or something. It's a metaphor for the havoc that unchecked and supposedly unsustainable economic growth would cause.

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