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Affluenza
- How Over-Consumption Is Killing Us - And How We Can Fight Back
- Narrated by: Joe Barrett
- Length: 9 hrs and 5 mins
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Publisher's Summary
Affluenza, n. a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more. We tried to warn you! The 2008 economic collapse proved how resilient and dangerous affluenza can be. Now in its third edition, this audiobook can safely be called prophetic in showing how problems ranging from loneliness, endless working hours, and family conflict to rising debt, environmental pollution, and rampant commercialism are all symptoms of this global plague. The new edition traces the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discusses new ways to measure social health and success (such as the Gross Domestic Happiness index), and offers policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly. The underlying message isn’t to stop buying - it’s to remember, always, that the best things in life aren’t things.
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- John Fredericks
- 15-09-2018
Affluenza
A must read for anyone who cares about the health, wellbeing and future of society. Fully of confronting but necessary facts and perspectives with many great ideas for improving our current habits
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- Sarah
- 19-03-2019
Some shocking information in here!
This is inspiring to change the way I live and think. Details such as the original definition of consumer, facts about how our children are being targeted by every means possible, the idea that kids today can't identify with nature... It's really emphasised how much we all have to change.
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- Anonymous User
- 14-08-2022
More a lecture than a book
Strap yourself in for hours upon hours of a stern, fatherly voice warning you that absolutely EVERYTHING you enjoy is killing your and our planet. You can just imagine the author wagging his white male finger at you. I bought this book because I got it confused with another one by the same name but with a different author. I recommend you go to that one instead.
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