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"The development of the new specialisms of advertising and market research as well as the marketing of consumer festivals such as Christmas, all strehgthened the drive towards consumerism." |
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| 46 |
"And then in 1936, along with Standard Oil and the Firestone Tyre Company, GM started National City Lines, a company whose purpose was to buy up and close down rail and tramways that might compete with the car as means of transport." |
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| 46 |
"The flip-side of the consumption coin is population. If everyone in the world were to own a car, there would be 5.5 billion of them on our roads, resulting in global gridlock and unsupportable air pollution. As it is there only [sic] about 500 million cars, but the number is growing at an alarming rate. Ask a car company representative what is the limit to the number of cars in the world and you will be answered with silence. Today's commerce cannot think in terms of limited markets..." |
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| 47 |
"As a result of the consumer revolution described above, the 21 percent of the population that lives in the industrialized world currently consumes roughly 80 percent of global resources and is responsible for the vast majority of waste and pollution." |
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| 47 |
"Energy used to heat a house or cook a meal in Africa cannot fairly be compared with energy used to overheat a house or to drive a lawnmower in America." |
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