Title: Inconspicuous Consumption Pdf The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have
From former New York Times Science writer Tatiana Schlossberg comes Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don't Know You Have, a fascinating and unexpectedly entertaining look at the way climate change and environmental pollution are intimately involved in our everyday life - in everything we use, buy, eat, wear, and how we get around - and have consequences that extend far beyond our lives.
With urgency and wit, Tatiana Schlossberg explains that far from being only a distant problem of the natural world created by the fossil fuel industry, climate change is all around us, all the time, lurking everywhere in our convenience-driven society, all without our realizing it.
By examining the unseen and unconscious environmental impacts in four areas-the Internet and technology, food, fashion, and fuel - Schlossberg helps listeners better understand why climate change is such a complicated issue, and how it connects all of us: How streaming a movie on Netflix in New York burns coal in Virginia; how eating a hamburger in California might contribute to pollution in the Gulf of Mexico; how buying an inexpensive cashmere sweater in Chicago expands the Mongolian desert; how destroying forests from North Carolina is necessary to generate electricity in England.
Cataloging the complexities and frustrations of our carbon-intensive society with a dry sense of humor, Schlossberg makes the climate crisis and its solutions interesting and relevant to everyone who cares, even a little, about the planet. She empowers listeners to think about their stuff and the environment in a new way, helping them make more informed choices when it comes to the future of our world.
Most importantly, this is a book about the power we have as voters and consumers to make sure that the fight against climate change includes all of us and all of our stuff, not just industry groups and politicians. If we have any hope of solving the problem, we all have to do it together.
Author's humor keeps me reading I like the title—an adjective not usually used with consumption—light-pedaling even on the cover and cover design. On the cover, the letters get lighter and lighter finishing out the sub-title. Is this symbolic of the clean water and air that are starting to disappear even now?I admit that I ordered this book because it was written by a Kennedy, even a Caroline Kennedy. Being that, I was pretty sure it would agree with my values. Also, I applaud anyone who tackles the subject of our consumption, choices we make around using straws, streaming Netflix, or eating apples in the spring. She doesn’t let us off the hook for personal habits, such as if we drank from any of the “more than 56 billion plastic bottles that were used needlessly in the US in 2018.”I expected to read only the introduction and the acknowledgements (surely a source for Kennedy insights) and skip the technical body of the book. But she got me to hang in there. She starts telling us about the physical internet and starts that story from a snowbank. She tells us about power and kilowatt hours and does that from apartment floors where she is plugging in her Kill A Watt meter taking measurements.Her strategy included putting the fun topics-food and fashion in the front sections. She left the fuel chapter until the end, understanding its capacity for boredom. She joked that it was “a move by a certainly saavy businesswoman. Evidenced by her decision to become a journalist and writing about the world’s most popular, easy-reading topic.” Okay, interest piqued, soldier on.Mostly it is her humor that drew me to read the entire book. The self-deprecating remarks, and environmental ironies she scatters through the book kept me chuckling and laughing even given this dismal mission she has taken on. After a groaner pun (fight or flight), she offers to see herself out. With bad news to deliver, she softens the blow with allowing that it’s up to her to break our hearts just a little. To see if we’re paying attention, at the umpteenth time she mentions corn as a problem, it gets a “duh.” The author has succeeded in writing this book as something readable, witty, and even understandable for an exceedingly complex topic. I finished the book convinced that at least she, the author, understands HFC’s, coal dust, and BTU’s and that gives me assurance about the environment (maybe because she’s a Kennedy and therefore can make everything right?)I’m pleased also that a Kennedy is honoring the legacy of their greatest generation roots by thinking deeply about our country. Remember “What can your country do for you, do for your country?” Now let’s apply that to the environment. Reading the book was an opportunity to get out my rose-colored glasses, if for just a bit.Very little new information I'm guessing that those who will read this book are predominately those who are already most aware and concerned about climate change and taking actions to reduce their carbon footprint. I've been making a list of practices that individuals can use and it reminded me of some I had not listed. I gave it 3 stars because it provides statistics on a variety of issues that I found interesting and highlighted but probably won't have the occasion to use.Most of the book presented issues without solutions.For example, growing cotton takes far more water than I imagined. Most other fabrics are some form of plastic. Cashmere is creating deserts. Wool and silk are not mentioned, but sheep take a lot of pasture and many are allergic or sensitive to wool and it doesn't seem that silk would be very environmentally friendly.Information about transportation suggested that people should walk or bike more. It also mentioned the greater exposure to traffic pollution at traffic lights or in traffic jams, but did not mention the increased exposure to those walking or biking.An essential book on the climate catastrophe that’s accessible to nearly everyone. This is an essential first book to read on the climate crisis. If you can read at a high school level, this book is accessible to you and you will learn everything you need to be an informed citizen and take action that will make a positive difference. Decent, knowledge people need to speak up and “say sh..t when they have a mouth full of it.” Quit being pleasant and polite and just speak the truth, expose ignorance and do what you can.
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