Shopping our way to safety : how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / Andrew Szasz.
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- 9780816635085
- HC 110.E5 .Sz18 2007
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HC 106.84 .Un31 2011 USA economy in brief. | HC 106.84 .Un31 2011 USA economy in brief. | HC 110.E5 .R723 2002 Environmental politics and policy / | HC 110.E5 .Sz18 2007 Shopping our way to safety : | HC 110.P6 .P649 2008 A people's history of poverty in America / | HC 110.S9 .J642 2007 Free lunch : | HC 110.W4 .F851 2007 Richistan : a journey through the American wealth boom and the lives of the new rich / |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-317) and index.
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.
Szasz argues that when consumers believe that they are buying a defense--organic, natural, or green products--from environmental hazards, they feel less urgency to actually do something to fix the problem. To achieve real security, he believes consumers must give up the illusion of individual solutions and together seek substantive reform. www.alibris.com
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