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Environmental policy-making will change the way in which societies organize their economic relationship with nature. The implications of environmental politics for the re-organization of work and leisure have become obvious to people everywhere. The environment creates jobs different from those associated with industrial society. It also changes our habits as consumers by providing choices regarding consumption; that is to say, we, i.e., European societies, live increasingly in a world where starvation is no longer a constraint on survival and feeding one’s family is no longer the mechanism that shapes the life-course decisions of most individuals. Most of us live in a world in which making a living is a normality. We distinguish ourselves through something beyond simply making a living: conspicuous consumption, free time, investment in an dwindling number of children.
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Eder, K., Kousis, M. (2001). Is There a Mediterranean Syndrome?. In: Eder, K., Kousis, M. (eds) Environmental Politics in Southern Europe. Environment & Policy, vol 29. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0896-9_17
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