Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 - Confronting Consumption -- I - The Consumption Angle -- 2 - Consumption and Its … - Commoditization: Consumption Efficiency and an Economy of Care and Connection -- II - Chains of Consumption -- 5 - Distancing …: Consumption and the Severing of Feedback -- 6 - Consumption and Environment in a Global Economy -- 7 - The Distancing of Waste …

consumption, strategies such as planned obsolescence that sustain consumption, and the shift in retailing from brick and mortar to … on-line shopping. Environmental critics have viewed every shift in patterns of increasing consumption as ultimately …