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Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / Andrew Szasz.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Szasz, Andrew, 1947-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Environmental economics--United States.
- Environmental economics.
- Consumption (Economics)--United States.
- Consumption (Economics).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (338 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous thing to do. Parents thought it was good for their kids to go outside, get some sun. "That's all changed now." -from the Introduction Many Americans today rightly fear that they are constantly exposed to dangerous toxins in their immediate environment: tap water is contaminated with chemicals; foods contain p
- Contents:
- Two historical case studies
- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body
- Consequences of inverted quarantine.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-317) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5370-4
- OCLC:
- 437204658
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