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20. Eisenhower quoted by Joni Seager in Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environmental Crisis (New York: Routledge, 1993), p. 221.
21. “Brighter” by Discover Card (youtube.com/watch?v=LKFZjg4eGMk).
22. Bill McKibben, Deep Economy (New York: Henry Holt & Company, 2007), pp. 35–36.
23. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p. 166. (The thirteen thousand dollars is annual per person income in 1995 dollars or “purchasing parity.”)
24. Richard Layard, Happiness: Lessons from a New Science (London: Penguin Press, 2005), pp. 29–35.
25. Layard, Happiness, pp. 34–35.
26. Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000).
27. Shankar Vedantam, “Social Isolation Growing in U.S., Study Says,” The Washington Post, June 23, 2006 (washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/
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29. From the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, reported in Science Daily, September 8, 2007 (sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/09/070907221530.htm).
30. De Graaf, Wann, and Naylor, Affluenza, p. 77.
31. Ibid., p. 45
32. McKibben, Deep Economy, p. 114.
33. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p. 112.
34. “Credit Card Debt Statistics,” Money-zine.com (money-zine.com/Financial-Planning/Debt-Consolidation/Credit-Card-Debt-Statistics).
35. Tim Kasser, The High Price of Materialism (Boston: MIT Press, 2003), p. 22.
36. Ibid., p. 59.
37. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p. 18.
38. The Happy Planet Index 2.0: Why good lives don’t have to cost the earth, The New Economics Foundation, 2009, p. 61.
39. Malin Rising, “Global Arms Spending Rises Despite Economic Woes,” The Independent [UK], June 9, 2009 (independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/global-arms-spending-rises-despite-economic-woes-1700283.html).
40. The Happy Planet Index 2.0, p. 5.
41. “Earth Overshoot Day 2009,” Global Footprint Network (footprintnetwork.org/en/index.php/GFN/
page/earth_overshoot_day/).
42. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, pp. 6–7.
43. “Earth Overshoot Day 2009.”
44. David W. Orr, “The Ecology of Giving and Consuming,” in Consuming Desires: Consumption, Culture and the Pursuit of Happiness, edited by Roger Rosenblatt (Washington D.C.: Island Press, 1999), p. 141.
45. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p.12.
46. Ibid.
47. Juliet B. Schor, The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure (New York: Basic Books, 1993), p. 77.
48. “Corporate Deals with Nazi Germany,” UE News, United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America (ranknfile-ue.org/uen_nastybiz.html).
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50. McKibben, Deep Economy, p. 114.
51. Duane Elgin, The Voluntary Simplicity Discussion Course, p. 15.
52. Thomas Princen, Michael Maniates, and Ken Conca, Confronting Consumption (Boston: MIT Press, 2002), p. 216.
53. Michael Burawoy, Manufacturing Consent: Changes in the Labor Process Under Monopoly Capitalism (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979), pp. 32–40.
54. Victor Lebow in the Journal of Retailing, quoted in Vance Packard, The Waste Makers (New York: David McKay, 1960), p. 24.
55. “Industrial Strength Design: How Brooks Stevens Shaped Your World,” Milwaukee Art Museum (mam.org/collection/archives/brooks/index.asp).
56. Bernard London, Ending the Depression Through Planned Obsolescence, originally published in 1932. Text of this pamphlet is posted