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Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / Andrew Szasz.
Lippincott Library HC110.E5 S93 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szasz, Andrew, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental economics--United States.
- Environmental economics.
- United States.
- Consumption (Economics)--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- xi, 323 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2007]
- Summary:
- Many Americans today rightly fear that they are exposed to toxins in their environment. Yet we have responded not by pushing for governmental regulation but instead by shopping. Andrew Szasz examines this phenomenon and argues that when consumers believe that they are buying a defense from hazards, they feel less urgency to find ways to eliminate them. To achieve real protection, he concludes, we must give up individualized solutions and together seek reform.
- Contents:
- Introduction: inverted quarantine
- Two historical case studies
- The fallout shelter panic of 1961
- Suburbanization as inverted quarantine
- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body
- Drinking
- Eating
- Breathing
- Consequences of inverted quarantine
- Imaginary refuge
- Political anesthesia
- Conclusion: the future of an illusion
- Notes
- References
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780816635085
- 0816635080
- 9780816635092
- 0816635099
- OCLC:
- 152580741
- Online:
- Publisher description
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