Acknowledgments
Introduction: Promoting Consumption
1 Promoting Plastic: Short-lived Commodities, Long-term Waste
2 E-commerce and Acceleration: Expediting Circulation, Normalising Fossil-Fuelled Convenience
3 Promotional Promises: Fossil Fuel Corporations’ Sustainability ‘Ambitions’
4 Overcoming Overconsumption: Closing Reflections and New Directions
Index
Biography
Leslie M. Meier is Lecturer in Media and Communication at the University of Leeds, UK.
‘Consumer Society and Ecological Crisis offers a timely and insightful analysis of the problem of unsustainable consumption. Drawing critical attention to a range of ecologically destructive sectors, Leslie Meier sheds light on the significant roles of advertising, business practices, and logistics in perpetuating predatory consumer capitalism’.
Alice Mah, University of Warwick and author of Plastic Unlimited: How Corporations Are Fuelling the Ecological Crisis and What We Can Do About It
‘Meier has provided us with a sophisticated account of the perilous connection between the consumer society and ecological crisis. The book demonstrates in a compelling way how practices at the basis of the current form of capitalism keep us stuck in an environmentally damaging consumer way of life. An extremely important intervention as we face the biggest environmental emergency for humankind’.
Benedetta Brevini, University of Sydney and author of Is AI Good for the Planet?
