Isbn: 9781863959414 - curing affluenza: how to buy less stuff and save the world (2 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 240 pages. cover corner worn, inside cover lightly tannedIn the tradition of Paul Mason's Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future and Ru tger Bregman's Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get ThereAffluenza is the empty sense we feel when our wasteful consumerist lifestyle leaves us dissat isfied and unfulfilled. How can we cureourselves of this strikingly modern affli ction? According to Richard Denniss, we must distinguish between consumerism, th e love of buying things, which is undeniably harmful to us and to the planet, an d materialism, the love of things, which can in fact be beneficial. In this spar kling book of ideas, he shows why we must cherish the things that we own ? pre serve them, maintain them, and then gift them or sell them when we no longer hav e a need for them. If we as a society do not cure ourselves of affluenza, we mak e it impossible for all the people of our planet to enjoy a higher standard of l iving, and we condemn our environment to a polluted and unsustainable future.…