Affluenza: The All Consuming Epidemic
- ISBN-10
- 1588110591
- ISBN-13
- 9781588110596
- Series
- Affluenza
- Category
- Consumption (Economics)
- Pages
- 268
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2001
- Author
- John de Graaf
Description
Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries, this book uses the metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious subject: the damage done - to our health, out families, our communities, and our environment - by the obsessive quest for material gain. The authors show that problems like loneliness, rising debt, longer working hours, environmental pollution, family conflict and rampant commercialism are actually symptoms caused by the same 'disease': affluenza.
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