Affluenza How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--and How to Fight Back
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Oct 26, 2022 09:53 PM
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John de Graaf
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Affluenza How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--and How to Fight Back (John de Graaf David Wann Thomas H. Naylor) (z-lib.org)
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Last updated December 26, 2023
Summary
Affluenza How Overconsumption Is Killing Us--and How to Fight Back is a book written by John de Graaf, David Wann, and Thomas H. Naylor that explores the dangers of over-consumption and the toll it is taking on our planet and our health. A must-read book for any UX Designer, key learnings include:
• The effects of over-consumption are not only environmental, but also affect our physical and mental well-being.
• Greed, materialism, and over-work are all contributing factors to our over-consumption culture.
• The authors provide examples of how to live with less, reduce waste, and promote shared values of equity and sustainability.
• The book also delves into the world of mass-marketing and its effects on our behavior, and how we can counter it.
As a UX Designer, this book is essential reading in understanding how over-consumption is affecting us both now and in the future, and how to create design solutions that promote sustainability. Other books which may also be of interest include The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman) and The Inmates are Running the Asylum: Why High-Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity (Alan Cooper).
✏️ Highlights
AFFLUENZA: THE FILM Most movies start with a book, but this book started with a movie. John, a coauthor of this book, and Vivia Boe produced a documentary in 1996 about the subject of overconsumption and its many not-so-benign consequences for American society.
The data and references cited in the text and footnotes have been extensively updated to reflect the many changes that have rocked the world in the past thirteen years.
AFFLUENZA (n.)—a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
A powerful virus has infected American society, threatening our wallets, our friendships, our families, our communities, and our environment. We call the virus affluenza. And because the United States has become the economic model for most of the world, the virus is now loose on every continent. Affluenza’s costs and consequences are immense, though often concealed. Untreated, the
A powerful virus has infected American society, threatening our wallets, our friendships, our families, our communities, and our environment. We call the virus affluenza. And because the United States has become the economic model for most of the world, the virus is now loose on every continent.
Untreated, the disease can cause permanent discontent.
AFFLUENZA: THE FILM Most movies start with a book, but this book started with a movie. John, a coauthor of this book, and Vivia Boe produced a documentary in 1996 about the subject of overconsumption and its many not-so-benign consequences for American society.
The data and references cited in the text and footnotes have been extensively updated to reflect the many changes that have rocked the world in the past thirteen years.
AFFLUENZA (n.)—a painful, contagious, socially transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more.
A powerful virus has infected American society, threatening our wallets, our friendships, our families, our communities, and our environment. We call the virus affluenza. And because the United States has become the economic model for most of the world, the virus is now loose on every continent. Affluenza’s costs and consequences are immense, though often concealed. Untreated, the
A powerful virus has infected American society, threatening our wallets, our friendships, our families, our communities, and our environment. We call the virus affluenza. And because the United States has become the economic model for most of the world, the virus is now loose on every continent.
Untreated, the disease can cause permanent discontent.
