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...Corbusier—in writing his biography—I found that I knew even less about him a few months after I started than when I began. It was like facing the wall of a Swiss bank vault. Fortunately, I then had access to his letters, and a human being began to come alive for me. Going back to your question, I’m really only interested in writing about people whose works I consider to be marked by genius. For me, Le Corbusier’s architecture was fascinating, and that’s what sparked...
...After all these years,” Hoffmann said. “I remain convinced that every human being is entitled to a very large amount of sunshine and warm weather...
...consumerism is also directly linked to world hunger, poverty, and suffering. According to Professor John Madeley of the London School of Economics, the global use of land for the cultivation of tobacco “denies 10 to 20 million people of food.” Furthermore, the 1998 Human Development Report revealed that rampant consumer culture inevitably leads to “circumstances that are exploitative of workers” and exerts negative psychological pressures on shoppers, leading them to make decisions that are financially harmful or even disastrous. For our daily extravagances—indeed, even...
Just because we can afford what we want doesn’t mean it should be ours for the taking. Over-consumption in the United States and other wealthy countries comes not only at the financial cost to consumers, but also at the expense of our environment and many human lives that are lost or degraded needlessly every year. As the dust settles, it seems clear that reckless greed played a leading role in the creation of the current financial disaster. We should all consider our own motives and their far-reaching, indirect effects in light of that calamity...
...better.” What is this motto other than a consumerist reworking of “have your cake and eat it, too”? As long as we seek out goods produced on a shoestring budget halfway around the world—with all the waste and human exploitation that entails—there can be no thought of “living well...