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Consumed: The Need for Collective Change: Colonialism, Climate Change, and Consumerism is a 2021 nonfiction work by Aja Barber that examines fashion and consumption as part of a wider system of colonialism, racial inequality, and environmental harm. Written in an accessible activist voice, the book is not a style guide or a simple anti shopping manifesto. Instead, it uses the fashion industry as a case study for how consumer culture is built on historical exploitation and how present day habits are tied to global labor injustice and climate damage. Barber organizes the book around a broad argument that individual buying choices matter, but they matter most when understood within larger structures of power. The result is a work of social criticism that combines cultural analysis, ethical reflection, and practical advice for readers who want to reduce complicity and push institutions toward change.