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The questions remain: does the consumer life make its most faithful adherents happy? Is the material basis of “happiness” the proper goal of life”? The percentage of Americans calling themselves happy peaked in 1957.1 But consumption has more than doubled in the meantime. Thus happiness and consumption do not seem to go hand in hand. Above basic subsistence, money has little effect on happiness. Rather, conspicuous consumption is causing stress on humankind and on nature. It is causing imbalances which amount to injustice.
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Sigurd Bergmann, “Invoking the Spirit amid Dangerous Environmental Change” God, Creation and Climate Change (Minneapolis: Lutheran University Press, 2009), 169.
Sallie McFague, A New Climate for Theology: God, the World and Global Warming (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2008), 53, 54.
Richard W. Gillet, The New Globalization: Reclaiming the Lost Ground of our Christian Social Tradition (Cleveland: The Pilgrim Press, 2005), 185.
Martin Buber, I and Thou (Eastford: Martino Fine Books, 2010), 944.
Cynthia Moe-Lobeda, Healing a Broken World: Globalization and God (Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2002), 133.
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Kim, G.JS. (2013). Conclusion. In: Colonialism, Han, and the Transformative Spirit. Palgrave Pivot, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137344878_6
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