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57. Packard, The Waste Makers, p. 46.
58. Elgin, The Voluntary Simplicity Discussion Course, p. 31.
59. This is based on the widely cited figure of forty thousand TV commercials per year; see “Television Advertising Leads to Unhealthy Habits in Children; Says APA Task Force,” press release from the American Psychological Association, February 23, 2004 (apa.org/releases/childrenads.html). Some analysts say fifty thousand; see the excerpt from Nolo Press’s Marketing Without Advertising (nolo.com/product.cfm/objectID/5E5BFB9E-A33A-43DB-9D162A6460AA646A/
sampleChapter/5/111/277/#summary).
60. Barber, Consumed, p. 29.
61. Elgin, The Voluntary Simplicity Discussion Course, p. 30.
62. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p. 14.
63. Barber, Consumed, p. 11.
64. Barber, Consumed, p. 13.
65. “Big Three Spent $7.2 Billion on Ads in 2007,” Dollars & Sense Blog (dollarsandsense.org/blog/2008/12/big-three-spent-72-billion-on-ads-in.html).
66. “Apple’s Advertising Budget: Revealed!” BNET Technology Blog (industry.bnet.com/technology/1000574/apples-advertising-budget-revealed/).
67. “Sharp will change your life?” Media Mentalism (mediamentalism.com/2008/07/15/sharp-will-change-your-life/).
68. “Advertisers go after bedroom eyes,” Sustainable Industries Journal, February 2007.
69. Aaron Falk, “Mom sells face space for tattoo advertisement,” Deseret News, June 30, 2005 (deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,600145187,00.html).
70. Mya Frazier, “Channel 1: New Owner, Old Issues,” Commercial Alert (commercialalert.org/issues/education/channel-one/channel-one-new-owner-old-issues).
71. Ibid. See also obligation.org.
72. James Gustave Speth, The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008), p. 159.
73. Juliet B. Schor, The Overspent American: Why We Want What We Don’t Need (New York: Harper Perennial, 1999), pp. 49–50.
74. Vedantam, “Social Isolation Growing in U.S.,” quoting Robert B. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone (washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/22/AR200606 2201763.html).
75. “Average Home Has More TVs than People,” USA Today, September 21, 2006 (usatoday.com/.../television/.../2006–09–21-homes-tv_x.htm).
76. Alana Semuels, “Television viewing at all-time high,” Los Angeles Times, February 24, 2009 (articles.latimes.com/2009/feb/24/business/fi-tvwatching24).
77. Schor, The Overspent American, p. 81.
78. Layard, Happiness, p. 89.
79. Schor, The Overspent American, pp. 74–79.
80. Sandra Gonzales, “Berkeley to Vote on Politically-Correct Coffee,” San Jose Mercury News, October 24, 2002 (commondreams.org/headlines02/1024–05.htm).
81. Barber, Consumed, pp. 82–88.
82. Ibid., p. 139.
83. “Our Fading Heritage: Americans Fail a Basic Test of Their History and Institutions,” Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2008 (americancivicliteracy.org/2008/summary
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84. Eric Lane and Michael Oreskes, “The Scary Consequences of Our Mindless Indifference to the History of the Constitution,” History News Network, October 8, 2007 (hnn.us/articles/43202.html). Lane and Oreskes are authors of The Genius of America: How the Constitution Saved Our Country—and Why It Can Again (NY: Bloomsbury USA, 2007).
85. “National Voter Turnout in Federal Elections,” Infoplease (infoplease.com/ipa/A0781453.html).
86. Putnam, Bowling Alone; an excerpt published online by the League of Women Voters cites the number of people ever attending a public meeting as 13 percent in 1993 (xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/DETOC/
putnam1/putnam.htm).
87. Layard, Happiness, pp. 8, 63.
88. Jane E. Dematte, “Near-Fatal Heat Stroke During the 1995 Heat Wave in Chicago,” Annals of Internal Medicine, vol. 129, no. 3, August 1, 1998, pp. 173–81.
89. Personal communication with Judith Helfand, 2009.
90. McKibben, Deep Economy, p. 117.
91. Layard, Happiness, p. 74.
92. Worldwatch Institute, State of the World 2004, p. 5.
93. Ibid., p. 6.
94. “Overview,” Human Development