Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
By (Author) Andrew Szasz
University of Minnesota Press
University of Minnesota Press
1st August 2009
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Sociology
339.4
Physical Properties
Paperback
336
Width 152mm, Height 229mm, Spine 20mm
Description
Many Americans today rightly fear that they are constantly exposed to dangerous toxins in their immediate environment: tap water is contaminated with chemicals; foods contain pesticide residues, hormones, and antibiotics; even the air we breathe, outside and indoors, carries invisible poisons. Yet we have responded not by pushing for governmental regulation, but instead by shopping. Andrew Szasz examines this phenomenon in Shopping Our Way to Safety.
Author Bio
Andrew Szasz is professor and chair of the sociology department at the University of California at Santa Cruz and author of the award-winning EcoPopulism (Minnesota, 1994).
