The United States of excess : gluttony and the dark side of American exceptionalism / Robert Paarlberg

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Oxford University Press, 2015Description: 248 pages ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780199922628
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 339.4 PAA 23
Summary: Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing to be proud of.
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Libro - Monografía Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles 339.4 PAA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available non fiction 042303

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing to be proud of.

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