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050	0	0	_aHC 110.E5 _b.Sz18 2007
100	1		_aSzasz, Andrew, _d1947- _91206
245	1	0	_aShopping our way to safety : _bhow we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves / _cAndrew Szasz.
260			_aMinneapolis : _bUniversity of Minnesota Press, _c2007.
300			_axi, 323 pages : _billustrations ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 283-317) and index.
505	0		_aIntroduction: 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.
520			_aSzasz 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
650		0	_aEnvironmental economics _zUnited States. _91207
650		0	_aConsumption (Economics) _zUnited States. _91208
942			_2lcc _cCIRC
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