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The Shadows of Consumption gives a hard-hitting diagnosis: many of the earth’s ecosystems and billions of its people are at risk from the consequences of rising consumption. Products ranging from cars to hamburgers offer conveniences and pleasures; but, as Peter Dauvergne makes clear, global political and economic processes displace the real costs of consumer goods into distant ecosystems, communities, and timelines, tipping into crisis people and places without the power to resist.
In The Shadows of Consumption, Peter Dauvergne maps the costs of consumption that remain hidden in the shadows cast by globalized corporations, trade, and finance. He traces the environmental consequences of five commodities: automobiles, gasoline, refrigerators, beef, and harp seals. In these fascinating histories we learn, for example, that American officials ignored warnings about the dangers of lead in gasoline in the 1920s; why China is now a leading producer of CFC-free refrigerators; and how activists were able to stop Canada’s commercial seal hunt in the 1980s (but are unable to do so now).
Dauvergne’s innovative analysis allows us to see why so many efforts to manage the global environment are failing even as environmentalism is slowly strengthening. He proposes a guiding principle of “balanced consumption” for both consumers and corporations. We know that we can make things better by driving a fuel-efficient car, eating locally grown food, and buying energy-efficient appliances; but these improvements are incremental, local, and insufficient. More crucial than our individual efforts to reuse and recycle will be reforms in the global political economy to reduce the inequalities of consumption and correct the imbalance between growing economies and environmental sustainability.
Peter Dauvergne is Professor of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in Global Environmental Politics at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of the award-winning Shadows in the Forest: Japan and the Politics of Timber in Southeast Asia (MIT Press, 1997), and the coauthor (with Jennifer Clapp) of Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment (MIT Press, 2005).
全球氣候環境歷經劇變,市民的消費習慣有何改變? 又,現代消費模式為生態及社會帶來什麼後果? 由牛肉、汽車、汽油、雪櫃以及竪琴海豹(?)五種商品作為個別案例分析,全球環境政策專家Peter Dauvergne為讀者揭示長久被視若無睹的「消費的影子」。
评分全球氣候環境歷經劇變,市民的消費習慣有何改變? 又,現代消費模式為生態及社會帶來什麼後果? 由牛肉、汽車、汽油、雪櫃以及竪琴海豹(?)五種商品作為個別案例分析,全球環境政策專家Peter Dauvergne為讀者揭示長久被視若無睹的「消費的影子」。
评分全球氣候環境歷經劇變,市民的消費習慣有何改變? 又,現代消費模式為生態及社會帶來什麼後果? 由牛肉、汽車、汽油、雪櫃以及竪琴海豹(?)五種商品作為個別案例分析,全球環境政策專家Peter Dauvergne為讀者揭示長久被視若無睹的「消費的影子」。
评分全球氣候環境歷經劇變,市民的消費習慣有何改變? 又,現代消費模式為生態及社會帶來什麼後果? 由牛肉、汽車、汽油、雪櫃以及竪琴海豹(?)五種商品作為個別案例分析,全球環境政策專家Peter Dauvergne為讀者揭示長久被視若無睹的「消費的影子」。
评分全球氣候環境歷經劇變,市民的消費習慣有何改變? 又,現代消費模式為生態及社會帶來什麼後果? 由牛肉、汽車、汽油、雪櫃以及竪琴海豹(?)五種商品作為個別案例分析,全球環境政策專家Peter Dauvergne為讀者揭示長久被視若無睹的「消費的影子」。
The Shadows of Consumption pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024