[PDF.81cx] The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism

The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism

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 | #793443 in eBooks |  2015-03-02 |  2015-03-02 | File type: PDF

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||12 of 13 people found the following review helpful.| Paarlberg Triology|By Robert E. McCorry, Jr. CAPT, USN (ret.)|What I like most about Paarlberg’s "The United States of Excess" is that he lays out the facts in well-referenced detail, offers clear and concise analyses, and then gently coaxes the reader along to his or her own conclusions. I found this to be true as well in his previous two works, "Starved for Science"| ||"Kudos to Robert Paarlberg for his shrewd, creative, and readable analysis of the political and cultural forces that had made it so difficult to meet the parallel challenges of climate change and the obesity epidemic."--Michael F. Jacobson, Executive Director

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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