TY  - BOOK
AU  - Szasz,Andrew
TI  - Shopping our way to safety: how we changed from protecting the environment to protecting ourselves 
SN  - 0816635080 (hc : alk. paper)
AV  - HC110.E5 S93 2007
U1  - 305 G6618r 2014 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Minneapolis
PB  - University of Minnesota Press
KW  - Consumption (Economics)
KW  - United States
KW  - Environmental economics
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-317) and index; Introduction: inverted quarantine -- Two historical case studies -- The fallout shelter panic of 1961 -- Suburbanization as inverted quarantine -- Assembling a personal commodity bubble for one's body -- Drinking -- Eating -- Breathing -- Consequences of inverted quarantine -- Imaginary refuge -- Political anesthesia -- Conclusion: the future of an illusion -- Notes -- References -- Index
N2  - Many Americans today rightly fear that they are exposed  to toxins in their environment. Yet we have responded not  by pushing for governmental regulation, but instead by  shopping. Andrew Szasz examines this phenomenon and  argues that when consumers believe that they are buying a  defense from hazards, they feel less urgency to fix them.  To achieve real protection, he concludes, we must give up  individual solutions and together seek reform.
ER  -