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State of the world, 2004 : a Worldwatch Institute report on progress towards a sustainable society by Linda Starke, Brian Halweil, Lisa Mastny, Erik Assadourian, Christopher Flavin, Hilary French, Gary Gardner, Danielle Nierenberg, Sandra Postel, Michael Renner, Radhika Sarin, Janet Sawin, Amy Vickers, The Worldwatch Institute is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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"A Bangladeshi child eats a bowl of rice. An American child plays with a plastic doll. A woman in Finland talks on a cell phone. A man in Zimbabwe fills his car with gasoline. A Japanese woman reads a newspaper. Think of the objects you buy and use in any given day. Now, try to imagine that there are more than 1.7 billion human beings in the consumer society--and their numbers are growing yearly. In many cases, excessive consumption burdens societies with bulging landfills, declining fish stocks
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- Author
- Linda Starke, Brian Halweil, Lisa Mastny, Erik Assadourian, Christopher Flavin, Hilary French, Gary Gardner, Danielle Nierenberg, Sandra Postel, Michael Renner, Radhika Sarin, Janet Sawin, Amy Vickers, The Worldwatch Institute
- Publisher
- W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated
- Published
- 2004
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781315065694
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Political Science, Nature, Economics
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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