Green ‘Bridge’ counters mass consumerism
“Money doesn’t make us happy.” We’ve all heard it from parents who drive Mercedes, innovative musicians who sell out to big labels, and Yale grads in their third year at Goldman Sachs. The mass consumerism that drives our economy — encouraging you to buy that new cell phone with the built in PDA and GPS and that pink argyle sweater from J. Crew — is harming our community. Dean James Gustave Speth of the School of Forestry speaks out against American consumer capitalism in his new book “A Bridge at the Edge of the World.” Recognizing that we are now in a state of environmental crisis, one...
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