The new consumers : the influence of affluence on the environment

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Label

The new consumers : the influence of affluence on the environment

Title remainder

the influence of affluence on the environment

Statement of responsibility

Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent

Creator

• Myers, Norman

Contributor

• Kent, Jennifer, 1951-

Subject

• Consommation
• Consommation (Économie politique) -- Aspect de l'environnement
• Consumo (Economía) -- Aspectos ambientales
• Consumptie
• Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects
• Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects
• Desarrollo económico -- Aspectos ambientales
• Desarrollo sustentable
• Duurzame ontwikkeling
• Développement durable
• Développement durable
• Développement économique
• Développement économique -- Aspect de l'environnement
• Economic development -- Environmental aspects
• Economic development -- Environmental aspects
• Economies de transition
• Education du consommateur
• Analyse comparative
• Environmental responsibility
• Environmental responsibility
• Groei
• Milieueffecten
• Nachhaltigkeit
• Pays en développement
• Responsabilidad ambiental
• Responsabilité environnementale
• Sustainable development
• Sustainable development
• Umweltschutz
• Umweltökonomie
• Verbrauch
• Verbraucherverhalten
• Wirtschaftsentwicklung
• Effets sur l'environnement

Language

eng

Summary

• Annotation
• Annotation

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

333.71/3

Index

index present

LC call number

HD75.6

LC item number

.M48 2004

Literary form

non fiction

NAL call number

HD75.6

NAL item number

.M48 2004

Nature of contents

bibliography

Summary expansion

• The New Consumers examines the environmental impacts of the increased consumption by the "new consumers" in developing countries, with particular focus on two commodities-cars and meat-that stand to have the most far-reaching effects. It analyzes consumption patterns in a number of different countries, with special emphasis on China and India (whose surging economies, as well as their large populations, are likely to account for exceptional growth in humanity's ecological footprint), and surveys big-picture issues such as the globalization of economies, consumer goods, and lifestyles. Ultimately, according to the authors, the challenge will be for all of humanity to transition to sustainable levels of consumption, for it is unrealistic to expect "new" consumers not to aspire to be like the "old" ones. Cogent in its analysis, The New Consumers issues a timely warning of a major and developing environmental trend, and suggests valuable strategies for ameliorating its effects
• Myers and Kent argue that while overconsumption is an abiding problem in the developed world, another one billion increasingly affluent "new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources