SOCI 250 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Strontium
18 Apr 2015
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Conservatives: it"s your fault, so decentives to consume less. Policy: raise taxes to control consumption behaviour. Policy: make companies pay at a corporate lvl. If taxes high enough, will make businesses change their model. But not good for economy if we reduce consumption. Price earth has paid for the american dream. We establish our self-wealth through material accumulation. Gdp (economic production) not strongest predictor of national consumption. Make you feel you ought to have it to be part of smth. When we began to clear the land (1492-1776) Keep cutting down woods and emigrating to the west. What use is a house if you don"t have a planet to put it on. Prairies will be covered w/ cattles and cowboys (1850-1900) Subdue the continent, rush to the paci c ocean to con rm destiny of human race. Villages, farms, each climate can hold 280 acres of lans. Press says indians too lazy to mine for gold, cultivate, etc.
