Buying Green: A Trap for Fools, or, Sartre on Ethical Consumerism

In Matthew Ally & Damon Boria (eds.), Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene. Rowman and Littlefield (2023)
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This paper appears in Earthly Engagements: Reading Sartre after the Holocene, edited by Matthew Ally and Damon Boria. From the introduction: "In Chapter 6, Michael Butler critically examines the misguided effort to shop our way out of climate change problems. After expositions of some key concepts from Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason, he criticizes ethical consumerism in a way reminiscent of Sartre's criticism of voting as a trap for fools. His concluding section juxtaposes two competing responses to climate change mitigation as a collective action problem, namely the Nudge Agenda and the Green New Deal."

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Michael Butler
University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

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