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- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © The Author(s) 2017
- ISSN
- 2049-775X
- eISSN
- 0814-0626
- DOI
- 10.1017/aee.2017.3
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
sOver the past 20 years, many authors have critically analysed the rapid intensification of global systems of production and consumption, and the economic models driving them, since the end of World War II. Importantly, this work has made visible the impacts of these systems of production and consumption on the health of human and non-human species, the environment and our communities, and the abrogation of basic rights such as those of secure and safe employment, affordable food and housing, and access to education and health services. Naomi Klein (No Logo; 1999), Paul Midler (Poorly Made in China; 2009s), Michael Blanding (The Coke Machine; s2010), Paul Roberts (The End of Food; 2009), and Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss (Affluenza; 2005) all provide deep insight into how consumerism and ‘owning’ more and more ‘stuff’ has created a never-ending cycle of wants and needs (and profits) for the few at the expense of the many. We live in a world where measurements of economic growth integrate the costs of dealing with divorce and obesity-related disease with revenue generated from agricultural production and retail sales, to come up with national estimations of ‘progress’. Questions have rightly been — and continue to be —
Journal
Australian Journal of Environmental Education – Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 16, 2017