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 …

farewell to communal capital -- The environmental costs of progress -- Pollution, perceptions, and environmental values … -- Civil society and the politics of pollution enforcement -- Struggling for sustainability -- Conclusion : on contradictions …