"This volume addresses current concerns about the climate and environmental sustainability by exploring one of the key drivers of contemporary environmental problems: the role of status competition in generating what we consume, and what we throw away, to the detriment of the planet. Across time...

Introduction : power, politics and unsustainable consumption / Lucie Middlemiss, Cindy Isenhour, Mari Martiskainen -- A consuming globalism : on power and the post-Paris Agreement politics of climate and consumption / Cindy Isenhour -- Practice does not make perfect : sustainable consumption,...