August 27, 2019
A Kennedy launches a campaign to tell us little people to quit eating hamburgers and buying cheap cashmere sweaters
By Monica Showalter
One of the beautiful people out there riding jets for book tours and maybe global warming conferences is very, very, upset with the rest of us for our "inconspicuous" consumption.
Pay no attention any more to the superrich for that conspicuous consumption on carbon-spewing yachts and jets flying to global warming conferences, the big problem now is shaming those who can only afford hamburgers. Biteback, see?
Twenty-nine year old Tatiana Celia Kennedy Schlossberg's new book, "Inconspicuous Consumption" comes out today, and she's already kicked off a cross-country book tour for it starting in Martha's Vineyard, wending around to the Hamptons, Manhattan, Cambridge, Portland, Maine, hipster Brooklyn, Los Angeles Seattle, Portland (different Portland), Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Washington, then back to Telluride for the rich ski bums, Denver, then back again to Vermont and ending in Boston, burning a lot of carbon to do it unless she's taking the bus. There were actually quite a few more toney towns and cities she'll burn carbon for to make appearances at that I didn't mention.
According to Mike Allen's top-ten column in Axios:
Out today, from former N.Y. Times science writer Tatiana Schlossberg, "Inconspicuous Consumption: The Environmental Impact You Don’t Know You Have" (Grand Central Publishing):
When we think about climate change, melting polar ice caps, hurricanes, or forest fires might be the first things that come to mind. ... Much lower down on the list, if it comes up at all, is average, everyday, run‑of‑the-mill stuff, including literal stuff: a pair of jeans, a hamburger, Netflix, an air-conditioner.But those four things, and many others, should be much higher on the list. In fact, almost everything we do, use, and eat ... has a lot to do with climate change and the environment, because of the way we use resources, create waste, and emit greenhouse gases without even thinking about it. ...
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