thanks for your contribution to wsn. i think the main problem with
Sklair's book is that he critiques consumerism from the point of view of
local cultural autonomy but not from the point of view of ecological
constraints. the main problem here is the "global impasse" stressed by
Peter Taylor (The Way the World Works). If the Chinese try to eat as
much meat and eggs and drive as many cars as the Americans do the
biosphere will fry. This is a major contradiction of capitalism.
chris