SOCI 342 Chapter n/a: Linking Production and Consumption
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Thomas princen, distancing: consumption and the severing of. Feedback, pp. 103 - 131 in confronting consumption , t. prin cen , m. Maniates and k. conca, eds. (mit press 2002). Distancing presumes that individual choices can be perfectly rational while the collective outcome is suboptimal, even destructive. Assumes that even wehre collective action problems do not arise, strategic interaction can result in displaced or deferred depletion of natural capital. Such cost generation should be assessed as a product of both production and consumption decisions. Must consider how differences in power contribute to such costs. Politically, lacks jurisdictional authority; resources users are those who claim rights but do not need to accept responsibility for the resource. Ecologically, resources and sinks in a frontier economy have either infinite regenerative capacity or can always be replaced or substituted via mobility and technology. Three factors lead policy makers and business people to continually try to construct them:
