On 2014/03/28 06:10 PM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Patrick, please let us know about good books / articles / movies popularizing the concept of Northern consumption privilege.
Best book and movie, without a doubt, is at http://www.storyofstuff.org But there's a large network and listserve dealing with crits of overconsumption: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> and people like Boston Univ's Juliet Schor (a recent speaker at Utah) doing brilliant work. And your colleague Andrew Jorgensen was also at the meeting in Lund, Sweden by the way.
I am organizing a conference in Utah telling Utahns they must consume less stuff if they want to have a livable planet for their children. An additional reason we must consume less is of course our moral obligation to set resources free for the poor nations. A catchy text explaining the Northern consumption privilege in simple words would be a big help for this conference.
But the big challenge is to move beyond a simple personal-responsibility stance, which has difficult political implications, and address systemic changes that improve /quality /of life by lowering consumption quantities in the context of a full re-boot and detox, eh. Naomi Klein and Avi Lewis have a forthcoming book/movie that will go a long way.
For the climate debt, here's a great little film: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWfb0VMCQHE
And for other linkages within the ecological debt argument, here's some material I offered last Friday (slideshow and paper on how best to pay without marketizing nature): http://ccs.ukzn.ac.za/default.asp?11,65,3,3164
Cheers, Patrick
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