The United States of Excess: Gluttony and the Dark Side of American Exceptionalism

by Robert Paarlberg

Book Overview

Compared to other wealthy countries, America stands out as a gluttonous over-consumer of both food and fuel. The United States boasts an obesity prevalence double the industrial world average, and per capita carbon emissions twice the average for Europe. Still worse, the policy steps taken by America in response to obesity and climate change have so far been the weakest in the industrial world. These aspects of America's exceptionalism are nothing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199922624
• ISBN13: 9780199922628
• Release Date: April 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.5"