Endnotes

1Laura Clark, ‘A career? Just make us stars, say children in new survey’, Daily Mail, 2 October 2009, www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1217484/A-career-Just-make-stars-say-children-new-survey.html.

2International Bottled Water Corporation, ‘Bottled water the nation’s healthiest beverage’, www.bottledwater.org/bottled-water-%E2%80%93-nation%E2%80%99s-healthiest-beverage-%E2%80%93-sees-accelerated-growth-and-consumption.

3John G Rodwan, Jr, ‘Bottled Water 2014: Reinvigoration’, Bottled Water Reporter, Jul–Aug 2015 issue, www.bottledwater.org/public/BWR%20JulyAug%202015%20Issue_BMC_2014%20Bottled%20Water%20Statistics%20Article.pdf.

4Michael Sivak and Brandon Schoettle, ‘Recent decreases in the proportion of persons with a driver’s license across all age groups’, The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute report no. UMTRI-2016-4, http://umich.edu/~umtriswt/PDF/UMTRI-2016-4.pdf.

5Mike Clay, ‘How Millennials are driving the shift away from cars’, ABC News, 20 November 2014, www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-20/clay-millennials-are-driving-the-shift-away-from-cars/5906406; Alexa Delbosc, ‘Why are young Australians turning their back on the car?’, The Conversation, 5 January 2016, http://theconversation.com/why-are-young-australians-turning-their-back-on-the-car-35468.

6Ari Shapiro, ‘IKEA executive on why the west has hit “peak stuff”’, All Things Considered, NPR, 22 January 2016, www.npr.org/2016/01/22/464013718/ikea-executive-on-why-the-west-has-hit-peak-stuff.

7John Rolfe, ‘Car spare parts war: Motorists warned prices are being jacked up by as much as 1000 per cent’, Daily Telegraph, 11 December 2016.

8Gilles Roucolle and Marc Boilard, ‘3D printing is already starting to threaten the traditional spare parts supply chain’, Forbes, 6 March 2017.

9Virginia Scott Jenkins, The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession (Smithsonian Books, 1994).

10Rich Martinez, ‘Homeowner lawn care fertilization practices’, Florida State University presentation; Francie Diep, ‘Lawns vs. crops in the continental U.S.’, Scienceline, 3 July 2011, http://scienceline.org/2011/07/lawns-vs-crops-in-the-continental-u-s/.

11See Clive Hamilton and Richard Denniss, Affluenza: When Too Much Is Never Enough, (Allen and Unwin, 2005).

12Andre Stephan and Robert Crawford, ‘Size does matter: Australia’s addiction to big houses is blowing the energy budget’, The Conversation, 14 December 2016, http://theconversation.com/size-does-matter-australias-addiction-to-big-houses-is-blowing-the-energy-budget-70271.

13The 1947 and 1954 figures were averaged to get a 1950 figure. Australian Institute of Family Studies, ‘Households in Australia source data’, accessed 9 August 2017, https://aifs.gov.au/facts-and-figures/households-australia/households-australia-source-data#size2011.

14Converted from square feet to square metres. US Census, ‘Media and average square feet of floor area in new single-family houses completed by location’, accessed 9 August 2017, www.census.gov/const/C25Ann/sftotalmedavgsqft.pdf.

15Statista, ‘Average number of people per household in the United States from 1960 to 2016’, accessed 9 August 2017, www.statista.com/statistics/183648/average-size-of-households-in-the-us.

16Robert Whaples, ‘Hours of work in U.S. history’, EH.net, accessed 9 August 2017, https://eh.net/encyclopedia/hours-of-work-in-u-s-history.

17Bruce Chapman and Kiatanantha Lounkaew, ‘How many jobs is 23,510 really? Recasting the mining job loss debate’, The Australia Institute report, 6 June 2011, www.tai.org.au/node/1732.

18Robert J. Samuelson, ‘Alan Greenspan’s flawed analysis of the financial crisis’, Washington Post, 22 March 2010, www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/21/AR2010032101707.html.

19‘Byron’s whaling past’, Byron Shire News, 26 May 2005, www.byronnews.com.au/news/apn-byrons-whaling/142630.

20Gavin Weightman, The Frozen Water Trade: How Ice from the Lakes of New England Kept the World Cool (HarperCollins, 2001), p 178.

21Gavin Weightman, The Frozen Water Trade, p 188.

22See for example Federica Cocco, ‘Most US manufacturing jobs lost to technology, not trade’, Financial Times, 3 December 2016, www.ft.com/content/dec677c0-b7e6-11e6-ba85-95d1533d9a62.

23Australian Bureau of Statistics, ‘Employed persons by Industry sub-division of main job (ANZSIC) and Sex’, 6291.0.55.003 – Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, May 2017.

24Office of the Chief Economist, Resource and Energy Quarterly March 2017 issue, https://industry.gov.au/Office-of-the-Chief-Economist/Publications/Pages/Resources-and-energy-quarterly.aspx#.

25Queensland Department of State Development, ‘Carmichael Coal Mine and Rail Project’, 19 June 2017, www.statedevelopment.qld.gov.au/assessments-and-approvals/carmichael-coal-mine-and-rail-project.html.

26Based on calculations in Chris Taylor, ‘Joint Report to the Land Court of Queensland on ‘Climate Change – Emissions’, appendix 1, 22 December 2014 (Adani Mining Pty Ltd [Adani] v Land Services of Coast and Country Inc & Ors), http://envlaw.com.au/wp-content/uploads/carmichael14.pdf.

27Australian Bureau of Statistics, 6291.0.55.003 – Labour Force, Australia, Detailed, Quarterly, May 2017; US Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘Civilian Employment Level [CE16OV]’, retrieved from FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/CE16OV; Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘NAICS 212100 – Coal Mining’, National Industry-Specific Occupational Employment and Wage Estimates May 2016, www.bls.gov/oes/current/naics4_212100.htm; UK Office for National Statistics, ‘Workforce jobs by industry’, UK labour market: July 2017, www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/employmentandemployeetypes/bulletins/uklabourmarket/july2017.

28Bureau of Labor Statistics, ‘Employees on nonfarm payrolls by industry sector and selected industry detail’, Economic news release, 4 August 2017, www.bls.gov/news.release/empsit.t17.htm.

29Stephen Edelstein, ‘Porsche makes more money per car than Audi, Bentley, or Lamborghini’, Motor Authority, 14 March 2014, www.motorauthority.com/news/1090892_porsche-makes-more-money-per-car-than-audi-bentley-or-lamborghini.

30Henk Bekker, ‘2017 (Q1) France: Best-selling car manufacturers, brands and models’, 3 April 2017, www.best-selling-cars.com/france/2017-q1-france-best-selling-car-manufacturers-brands-models; Renault, ‘Clio features and specs’, www.renault.com.au/vehicles/cars/clio/clio/features-specifications; Automobile Catalog, ‘2001 Ford (USA) Excursion 4WD’, www.automobile-catalog.com/make/ford_usa/excursion/excursion/2001.html.

31Tesla, ‘Model S specifications’, www.tesla.com/support/model-s-specifications; Teslarati, ‘Tesla being eyed by big General Motors’, 18 July 2013, www.teslarati.com/tesla-being-eyed-by-big-general-motors-gm/.

32James Ayre, ‘Global electric car sales surpasses half a million in 2015’, CleanTechnica, 8 March 2016, https://cleantechnica.com/2016/03/08/global-electric-car-sales-surpasses-half-a-million-in-2015/; Mark Rogowsky, ‘Tesla plans to rev up to 90,000 deliveries in 2016, trampling any bears in its way’, Forbes, 10 February 2016; Syrah Resources, ‘The emerging giant of graphite supply into the renewable energy industry’, investor presentation, 13 December 2016, www.syrahresources.com.au/investors/downloads/406; ‘Electric vehicles to be 35% of global new car sales by 2040’, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, 25 February 2016, https://about.bnef.com/blog/electric-vehicles-to-be-35-of-global-new-car-sales-by-2040.

33‘Lithium ion batteries are now selling for under $140/KWh – New York hears on Benchmark World Tour 2017’, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, 15 May 2017, http://benchmarkminerals.com/lithium-ion-batteries-are-now-selling-for-under-140kwh-new-york-hears-on-benchmark-world-tour-2017.

34See for example M.J. Brear, M. Jeppesen, D. Chattopadhyay, C. Manzie, T. Alpcan and R. Dargaville, ‘Least cost, utility scale abatement from Australia’s NEM (National Electricity Market) Part 2: Scenarios and policy implications’, Energy (2006), https://arena.gov.au/assets/2017/06/Brear-Least-cost-abatement-part-2-published-version_1.pdf; Juan Jose Vidal-Amaro, Poul Alberg Ostergaard and Claudia Sheinbaum-Pardo, ‘Optimal energy mix for transitioning from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources – The case of the Mexican electricity system’, Applied Energy vol. 150, 15 July 2015, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0306261915004353.

35Kate Blanchfield, Nan Tian and Pieter D. Wezeman, ‘Biggest military spenders’, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, accessed 9 August 2017, http://visuals.sipri.org/.

36Sean McElwee, ‘The income gap at the polls’, Politico Magazine, 7 January 2015, http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/01/income-gap-at-the-polls-113997.

37Simon Kuznets, ‘National Income, 1929–1932’, National Bureau of Economic Research bulletin 49, 7 June 1934, www.nber.org/chapters/c2258.pdf.

38Don Watson, American Politics in the Time of Trump, Quarterly Essay 63 (Black Inc., 2016).

39Kristie Arslan, ‘Five big myths about American small businesses’, HuffPost, 24 May 2011, www.huffingtonpost.com/kristie-arslan/five-big-myths-about-amer_b_866118.html.

40Grover Norquist, ‘Conservative advocate’, NPR, 25 May 2001, www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1123439.

41The World Bank, ‘Electric power consumption (kWh per capita)’, http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/EG.USE.ELEC.KH.PC?locations=AU-US.

42BP, ‘Underpinning data, 1965–2016’, Statistical Review of World Energy 2017, www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html.