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The Shadows Of Consumption : Consequences For The Global Environment

  • The Shadows Of Consumption : Consequences For The Global Environment

  • Attribution

    Peter Dauvergne

  • Publication Details

    Book, MIT Press, 2008

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     (LOWER LEVEL)  HC79.C6 D38 2008  AVAILABLE

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  • Description

    The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth’s ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. In The Shadows of Consumption, Peter Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade, and finance. More crucial than our individual efforts to reuse and recycle will be reforms in the global political economy to reduce the inequalities of consumption and correct the imbalance between growing economies and environmental sustainability. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)

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  • Subject

  • Contents

    • Introduction: the ecological shadows of rising consumption
    • An unbalanced global political economy
    • Dying of consumption
    • 1. Automobiles
    • Accidental dependency? The road to an auto world
    • A better ride: selling safe and clean
    • The road tolls
    • The globalization of accidents and emissions
    • 2. Leaded gasoline
    • Leaded science: pumping out profits and risks
    • Lead must go
    • Taking the lead out of Africa
    • The globalization of risk
    • 3. Refrigerators
    • Refrigerating the ozone layer
    • Phasing out CFC refrigerators
    • Selling the "superior" refrigerator
    • The globalization of plugging in
    • 4. Beef
    • The efficient steer: fast, fat, and cheap
    • The ecology of big beef
    • Sustainable beef? Chasing a stampede of "regular" steers
    • The globalization of more meat
    • 5. The harp seal hunt
    • The red ice: heroes and overharvesting
    • The brutes! Killing markets with activism
    • Hunting beaters for globalizing markets
    • The globalization of slippery markets
    • Conclusion: transforming global consumption
    • The illusions of environmentalism
    • A brighter world order of balanced consumption

  • ISBN

    • 9780262042468
    • 0262042460

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