Full Description
Those who don't yet have an American standard of living usually want it, yet it would take three whole Earths to provide this for everyone alive today. This text brings together a group of writers to explore and resolve the paradox, including Jane Smiley (author of "A Thousand Acres"), Bill McKibben (author of "The End of Nature) and Juliet Schor (author of "The Overspent American"). They investigate the roots of consumer culture and its meanings for us. The authors do not offer easy solutions for the future, rather, they seek to provide a deeper understanding of how far the issues reach into our societies and into our sense of ourselves.
Contents
One world of consumers; what's wrong with consumer society?; consuming for love; false connections; oh Isaac, oh Bernard, oh Mohan; consuming nature; a new consumer's Bill of Rights; when we devoured books; movies and the selling of desire; the ecology of giving and consuming; it all begins with housework; equipoise; can't get that extinction crisis out of my mind.
