Nicole HPK’s Reviews > The Sustainability Class: How to Take Back Our Future from Lifestyle Environmentalists > Status Update

The problem with the spectacle and why it is ultimately so dissatisfying is that it can only be looked at or consumed

We are impelled to use every bit of money, every square inch of space, and every second of our waking life producing goods and services, and those efficiency gains will supposedly save the planet (149)

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“While Trophy hunting was legalized, African hunters, who depended on game meat… were singled out as poachers and criminalized. Hunting quotas were set up and guns (reserved for Europeans, of course) were classified as humane ways of killing animals, as opposed to African hunting techniques involving spears, snares, or fire that were claimed to be cruel, unsportsmanlike, and unsustainable.” (87)