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About ten years ago a newspaper in Saskatchewan, which has a population roughly equal to my home state of Maine’s 1.3 million, ran an eye-popping headline: “165 People Killed! 7,562 Injured! Over $100,000,000 in Property Damage! Provincial Government Helpless! Expects Same Carnage Next Year!”1
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Briarpatch Magazine, September 2001:.
See http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITICS/01/31/bush.sotu/(last accessed February 1, 2008).
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/same-as-they-ever-were/.
Bill McKibben, “Can 350.org Save the World?” http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/05/17-4.
Gregory Mankiw, Principles of Economics (Boston: South-Western College Publishers, 2008).
See James Hansen at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2006/jul/13/the-threat-to-the-planet/?page=2.
Michael Best and William Connolly, The Politicized Economy (Lexington: D. C. Heath and Co., 2nd edition, 1983).
See especially Juliet Schor, The Overspent American: Upscaling, Downshifting, and the New Consumer (New York: Basic Books, 1998).
Schor’s most recent work on children and consumption is Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture (New York: Scribner, 2005).
Keith Bradsher, “Domination, Submission, and the Chevy Suburban,” New York Times, March 23, 1997, section 4.
Thomas Dumm, A Politics of the Ordinary (New York: New York University Press, 1999), 2.
For my discussion of Ryan, I draw on Benjamin Hunnicutt’s superb study of the politics of shorter hours, Work Without End (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988).
Catherine Keller, On the Mystery: Discerning Divinity in Process (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008), 47–50.
See Stuart Kauffman, Reinventing the Sacred: A New View of Science, Reason, and Religion (New York: Basic Books, 2008), 131–143.
Jane Bennett, Vibrant Matter: A Political Ecology of Things (Durham: Duke University Press, 2009), 94–100.
Quoted in William E. Connolly, Why I Am Not a Secularist (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1999), 137.
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Buell, J. (2011). From the Model T to the Hummer: The Economics and Aesthetics of the American Automobile. In: Politics, Religion, and Culture in an Anxious Age. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230339231_4
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