Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have

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Schlossberg, Tatiana, author

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Updated with a new, insighful preface and afterword, Inconspicuous Consumption is a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimate...

Updated with a new, insighful preface and afterword, Inconspicuous Consumption is a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday lives and have far-reaching consequesces. With urgency and with, former New York Times science writer Tatiana Schlossberg examines the unsee environmental impacts in four areas, the Internet and technology, food, fashion and fuel to explain how interconnected we are: how streaming a movie in New York burns coal in Virginia and how buying an inexpensive cashmere sweater in Chicago expands the Mongolian desert. Cataloging the complexities and frustrations of our carbon-intensive society with a dry sense of humor, Schlossberg makes the climate crisis and its solutions interesting and relevant. She emporwers readers to make mor einformed choices and to better understand our potential as voters and consumers. Armed with this knowledge, we can fight the climate crisis at every level, because if we have any hope of solving the problem, we have to do it together.

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