Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have

Title
Inconspicuous consumption : the environmental impact you don't know you have

Personal Author EPSB
Tatiana, Schlossberg

Summary
By examining the unseen and unconscious environmental impacts in four areas-the Internet and technology, food, fashion, and fuel - Schlossberg helps readers better understand why climate change is such a complicated issue, and how it connects all of us: How streaming a movie on Netflix in New York burns coal in Virginia; how eating a hamburger in California might contribute to pollution in the Gulf of Mexico; how buying an inexpensive cashmere sweater in Chicago expands the Mongolian desert; how destroying forests from North Carolina is necessary to generate electricity in England.

Year Published
2019

Physical Description
277 pages ; 24 cm

Subject
Consumption (Economics) -- Environmental aspects
 
Consumer behavior -- Environmental aspects
 
Lifestyles -- Environmental aspects
 
Environmental responsibility

Summary
By examining the unseen and unconscious environmental impacts in four areas-the Internet and technology, food, fashion, and fuel - Schlossberg helps readers better understand why climate change is such a complicated issue, and how it connects all of us: How streaming a movie on Netflix in New York burns coal in Virginia; how eating a hamburger in California might contribute to pollution in the Gulf of Mexico; how buying an inexpensive cashmere sweater in Chicago expands the Mongolian desert; how destroying forests from North Carolina is necessary to generate electricity in England.

ISBN
9781538747087

Publisher
New York : Grand Central Publishing, [2019]
 
©2019


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Edmonton Christian High363.7 SCHBook30905000123871Non-Fiction