Is+American+culture+a+sustainability+problem?

=Is American culture a sustainability problem?=

key themes for debate:
 * 1) risk /// cultural
 * 2) regulation /// governmental + political
 * 3) corporations/PR/advertising /// economic

__yes__
Ted Talk, December 2010. [|Naomi Klein: Addicted to Risk]

__no__
[|Ronald Reagan, announcement of candidacy for President, November 1979]

__other__
Guy Debord The Society of the Spectacle (check out the wiki, full text at the bottom) Frontline: Merchants of Cool Film: Toxic Sludge is Good For You: The PR Industry Unspun
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January 12, 2010. The Guardian. [|US cult of greed is now a global environmental threat, report warns]: Excessive consumption has spread to developing countries and could wipe out efforts to slow climate change, Worldwatch Institute says

Bloomberg Businessweek, June 2008. [|Entrepreneurship as America’s Greatest Export.]

Steele, E.D. and Redding, W.C. (1962). The American Value System: Premises for Persuasion,//Western Speech//, **26**, 83-91 Related: http://changingminds.org/explanations/values/american_values.htm

May, 200. The Economist. [|The United States of Entrepreneurs]

Reich, R. (2005). The Lost Art Of Democratic Narrative. //The New Republic//, March 21, 2005 [] Related: http://changingminds.org/disciplines/storytelling/plots/reich_narrative.htm

December, 2006. //The American: The Journal of the American Enterprise Institute.// [|In China's Shadow: The Crisis of] [|American] [| Entrepreneurship]



Schultz, P. W. (Aug 2002) "[|Environmental Attitudes and Behaviors Across Cultur]e," Online Readings in Psychology and Culture

Chomsky, Noam. "Prerogatives of Power," Truthout. 2014.