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The shadows of consumption : consequences for the global environment / Peter Dauvergne.
Lippincott Library HC79.C6 D38 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dauvergne, Peter.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Environmentalism.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 315 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, [2008]
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [263]-287) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780262042468
- 0262042460
- OCLC:
- 216938347
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