But that doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. “Today, rationing is about as acceptable a topic of conversation as hemorrhoids. In this richly informative and deeply courageous book, he tackles one of the greatest taboos of our high-consumer culture: the need to consume less and to fairly share what’s left.” -Naomi Klein, author of The Shock Doctrine “An iconoclast of the best kind, Stan Cox has an all-too-rare commitment to following arguments wherever they lead, however politically dangerous that turns out to be. Orr, Paul Sears Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics, Oberlin College a brilliant opening of a global dialogue on who gets what, when, why, and how.” -David W. “A cool and cogent analysis of a taboo subject. The author of Losing Our Cool, the much-debated and widely acclaimed examination of air-conditioning’s many impacts, here turns his attention to the politically explosive topic of how we share our planet’s resources. And in this provocative and thoughtful book Cox asks: can we limit consumption while assuring everyone a fair share? Any Way You Slice It takes us on a fascinating search for alternative ways of apportioning life’s necessities, from the wartime goal of “fair shares for all” in the 1940s to present-day water rationing in a Mumbai slum, from the bread shops of Cairo to the struggle for fairness in American medicine and carbon rationing on Norfolk Island in the Pacific. Instead, he persuasively argues that how we ration is a crucial issue in our fragile present, an era of dwindling resources and environmental crises. In Any Way You Slice It, Stan Cox shows that fair-shares rationing is not just a quaint practice restricted to World War II memoirs and stories of gas-station lines in the 1970s. As Nobel Prize–winning economist Amartya Sen has said, the results can be “thoroughly unequal and nasty.” Health care expert Henry Aaron has compared mentioning the possibility of rationing to “shouting an obscenity in church.” Yet societies ration food, water, medical care, and fuel all the time, with those who can pay the most getting the most. WikiTesti è un’enciclopedia musicale con lo scopo di far conoscere a quante più persone possibile il panorama musicale.Rationing: it’s a word-and idea-that people seem to fear and hate in equal measure. Il testo contenuto in questa pagina è di proprietà dell’autore. You know you ain’t your mother’s little daughter anymore I know you can’t deny it, any way you slice it I know what’s in your heart, I know what’s in your mind, yeah So let me be your king bee, I want your hornets nest Why settle for seconds when you can have the best
Well, if I told you once, I told you twice I know what’s in your heart, I know what’s in your mind When it works like a charm it’ll do you no harm Ooh, ain’t no wolf on the corner, can’t keep it in any longer You know you can’t deny it, any way you slice itĪin’t your mother’s little daughter anymore Well it’s better late than never, can’t stay innocent foreverĪny way you slice it, any way you slice it I know you wanna cross the border and you know the doctor’s orders Well, you’re caught in this trap and you can never go back
I went out on a limb, gotcha under my skin, well alright I caught the tail of a hurricane and I’ve never ever been the same
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