Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis
Leslie M. Meier
Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis
Leslie M. Meier
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Description
Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis advances a critique of consumer capitalism and its role in driving environmental degradation and climate crisis, placing a spotlight on how marketing and distribution activities help maintain unsustainable levels of consumption.
‘Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis offers a timely and insightful analysis of the problem of unsustainable consumption. Drawing critical attention to a range of ecologically destructive sectors, Leslie Meier sheds light on the significant roles of advertising, business practices, and logistics in perpetuating predatory consumer capitalism’.
Alice Mah, University of Warwick and author of Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It
‘Meier has provided us with a sophisticated account of the perilous connection between the consumer society and ecological crisis. The book demonstrates in a compelling way how practices at the basis of the current form of capitalism keep us stuck in an environmentally damaging consumer way of life. An extremely important intervention as we face the biggest environmental emergency for humankind’.
Benedetta Brevini, University of Sydney and author of Is AI Good for the Planet?
Leslie M. Meier is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK.