The New Consumers: The Influence of Affluence on the Environment

by Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent

While overconsumption by the developed world's roughly one billion inhabitants is an abiding problem, another one billion increasingly affluent "new consumers" in developing countries will place additional strains on the earth's resources, argue authors Norman Myers and Jennifer Kent in this important new book.

The New Consumers examines the environmental impacts of this increased consumption, with particular focus on two commodities...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1559639970
• ISBN13: 9781559639972
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Island Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

This book was very good at opening my blind American eyes

Showing the ever-changing world economy and foretelling the financial futures of certain new world-powers, The New Consumers is a great read which was very enlightening to me. I learned tons about the past, present, and future of 20 or so countries. I also learned about money, economy, GNP GNI and PPP [different measures of a country's affluence, I=PAT (an indicator of a country's impact)], and many useful ideas and patterns that govern the world and its economy. This book has as many statistics as it does words. Other than that, this is a great book that everyone should read.