The Shadows of Consumption by Dauvergne, Peter -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Halftitle Booktitle Copyrights Dedication Contents Abbreviations Preface Acknowledgments Part I The Ecological Shadows of Rising Consumption 1 An Unbalanced Global Political Economy

Rising Consumption The Political Economy of Consumption The Globalization of Ecological Shadows Globalization of Environmental Management Unbalanced Globalization Side Effects of Corporate Behavior Side Effects of Trade Side Effects of Financing Deflecting Costs and Responsibilities

2 Dying of Consumption

The Darkening Skies Consuming Risks A Shadow of Cancer? Mapping Ecological Shadows

I Automobiles

3 Accidental Dependency? The Road to an Auto World

The Accident Today’s “Accidental” Crisis Rise of America’s Auto Culture Accidental Dependency?

4 A Better Ride: Selling Safe and Clean

Regulating Traffic in the First World Converters and Injection Rising Emission Standards: California as Exemplar Recycling the Junk Recycling Plastic Cars Regulating Traffic Safety in the First World Buckling Up and Braking The SUV Setback A Safer Drive in the First World

5 The Road Tolls

Producing More Traffic The Toyota Way Producing Big Traffic Paving Developing Countries with Autos The Environmental Tolls Dying on the Roads

6 The Globalization of Accidents and Emissions

II Leaded Gasoline

7 Leaded Science: Pumping Out Profits and Risks 8

The Profitable Breakthrough Ethyl Gas Goes Loony Reassuring Consumers Silencing the Critics The Decades of Industry Science The Tide Turns

8 Lead Must Go

Delaying the U.S. Phasedown The U.S. Phasedown Accelerates The U.S. Lead Industries Fight Back The U.S. Phaseout Exporting Shadows of Lead The “Worldwide” Phasedown

9 Taking the Lead Out of Africa

Partnering for a Phaseout in Sub-Saharan Africa Implementing the Partnership Unleaded Africa A Model for Others?

10 The Globalization of Risk

The Midgley Genius

III Refrigerators

11 Refrigerating the Ozone Layer

From Icebox to Gas Box Frigidaire Freon A Theory in Nature Collecting and Contesting the Evidence States Act Globally Explaining the “Success”

12 Phasing Out CFC Refrigerators

CFCs in the 1970s and 1980s Phasing Out CFC Refrigerators in Developed Countries The Multilateral Fund The Case of China A Global Phaseout Selling More Refrigerators Competing to Expand Consumption

13 Selling the “Superior” Refrigerator

Marketing Energy-Efficient Refrigerators Environmental Responsibility at Electrolux Environmental Responsibility at BSH Superefficient Whirlpool ENERGY STAR Plugging in Global Electricity

14 The Globalization of Plugging In

IV Beef

15 The Efficient Steer: Fast, Fat, and Cheap

Inside the Slaughter houses Producing Pure Food Farming Meat Rising Consumption of Meat The Beef Industry The American Beef Industry Overconsuming More, Faster

16 The Ecology of Big Beef

Planting Grain-Fed Beef Stuffing Meat with Soy Feeding Antibiotics Ranching the Amazon

17 Sustainable Beef? Chasing a Stampede of “Regular” Steers

Defining All-Natural Beef Defining “Organic” and “Grass-Fed” Beef Sustainable Beef? Chasing Beef Markets

18 The Globalization of More Meat

V The Harp Seal Hunt

19 To the Red Ice: Heroes and Overharvesting

The Story of Albert John Crewe Wooden Tragedies The Biology of Sealing The Beginnings of a Sealing Fleet Sealing in the Nineteenth Century The Decline of Sealing: 1900-1945 Sealing toward a Crisis: 1945-1965

20 The Brutes! Killing Markets with Activism

Confronting the Seal Hunt in the 1960s Confronting the Seal Hunt in the 1970s Greenpeace Joins the Campaign The Consumer Campaign Banning the Hunt for Whitecoats

21 Hunting Beaters for Globalizing Markets

Awakening the Industry Expanding Markets A Sustainable and Humane Harvest? The Anti-Sealing Coalition Missing the Consumers

22 The Globalization of Slippery Markets

Conclusion

23 The Illusions of Environmentalism

The Progress of Environmentalism The Failures of Incremental Environmentalism

24 A Brighter World Order of Balanced Consumption

More Balanced Consumers Balancing Corporations Balancing Trade Balancing Financial Flows Navigating the Future

Notes References Index

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