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I struggle with the guilt of being part of the conspicuous consumption cadre and strive to rein it in
He engages with the histories of certain key commodities—coffee cotton sugar tobacco etc
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Food for thought as i deliberate the path i could take as part of the solution
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Consumerism waste and climate change
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Long book but relates to 70 of us economy and environmental problem of waste
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Unfortunately does not address solutions
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A lot of attention to ordinary people what they had and what they did
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Leaves the impression the zest for goods universal an aspect of human nature rather than dictated by social or cultural messages
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Makes abundantly clear the significance of consumption in the past and present how it has organized commerce and life and becomes a bit gloomy when contemplating the future the problem of waste
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The first half of trentmanns book is a roughly chronological history of consumer culture from the renaissance to today