Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves

Szasz, Andrew

ISBN 10: 0816635080 / ISBN 13: 9780816635085

Published by Univ Of Minnesota Press (edition 3rd ed.), 2007

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With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shopping Our Way to Safety: How We Changed from Protecting the Environment to Protecting Ourselves
• Publisher: Univ Of Minnesota Press (edition 3rd ed.)
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816635080
• ISBN 13: 9780816635085
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 3rd ed.
• Condition: Fair
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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).