Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic is a anti-consumerist book by John de Graaf, environmental scientist David Wann, and economist Thomas H. Affluenza has ratings and reviews. Dave said: Let’s begin with the end. The very end. When your time comes and your whole life flashes before. Based on two highly acclaimed PBS documentaries watched by 10 million viewers, “”Affluenza uses the whimsical metaphor of a disease to tackle a very serious.

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This book was written a few years before the economic recession and yet the authors wrote it knowing it was coming, and soon.
Mar 17, Anie rated it liked affluenz Shelves: I’m interested in the concepts of consumerism and materialism, so I really wanted to enjoy this book and was drawn in by the title and cover art. I enjoyed the premise of the book. Stephen rated all-cosuming it was amazing Sep 19, This was a depressing, highly critical description of what for most thinking people is common knowledge. Berrett-Koehler Publishers- Consumption Economics – pages.
I’d heard very excellent things about it, and it didn’t quite live up to par. Secondly, the book did not teach me much about consumerism- I could have learned more from perusing the Wikipedia page on “Consumerism.

I wish they would ALL read it. Government oversight has been proven to be a failure And that’s the reason for this book: I decided to take the action of becoming vegan and made myself a mission of simplifying adfluenza life and promoting a simply lifestyle to others. A Rash of Bankruptcies.

Kindle Editionpages. Emma marked it as to-read Apr 15, Roi Dimor rated it really liked it May 27, How much of the story will be about moments of clarity and grace, kindness and caring? The new edition traces the role overconsumption played in the Great Recession, discusses new ways to measure social health and success such as the Gross Domestic Happiness indexand offers policy recommendations to make our society more simplicity-friendly.
In conclusion, this book was inspiring, and helpful when thinking about affluemza to change my life for the betterment of myself. Even still, they allow drugs to be sold without proper testing, allow harmful additives into food and drink all while slapping on the FDA approved label.
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic
Jun 16, Cameron rated it did not like it. As an international strategic management consultant, he has advised governments and corporations in over thirty nations. I think first of all, those who are consumerist won’t even read because they are too busy shopping.
Their examples are way over the top exaggerations–usually punctuated with exclamation marks–designed more to hook the emotions than to engage the mind.
And it tries to meetnonmaterial needs with material goods, a losing strategy. In the meantime, most people can skip this book. Webarchive template webcite links Articles lacking in-text citations from September All articles lacking in-text citations Pages to import images to Wikidata.
Bill R Patterson is currently reading it Oct 29, Mar 06, Terry Lynn rated it did not like it.
Jeanna Wieselmann is currently reading it Aug 30, The difference is that while the aim of the cheapskate books is to get yourself out of debt so you can get rich, the aim of this book is to reduce consumption in order to save the environment.
More importantly, I didn’t feel like I’d learned anything by the end of all-consumkng book. Unfortunately the metaphor is so overplayed as to become irritating, cutesy, and trite.
Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic – John De Graaf, David Wann, Thomas H. Naylor – Google Books
Our annual production of solid waste would fill a convoy of garbage trucks stretching halfway to the moon. Barbara Dyer-Bennet rated it it was amazing Aug 27, Affluenza helps readers diagnose the symptoms, understand the causes, afluenza finally find the all-consumibg for the disease of over consumption. I knew the authors were leftist nuts right from the preface where they apologized for referring to Americans as Americans- hey authors: I liked some of the facts and figures presented, and many of the quotes.
Lastly, the organization of Affluenza drove me crazy. I wanted this book to be revelatory, instead it was somnambulatory.
