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More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #26B: More Is
Better Mentality / Abundance
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| Living
Ever Larger--How Wretched Excess Became a Way of Life in Southern
California, by Patrick Kiger |
| Too
Much (website providing "commentary on excess and
inequality") |
| Six
Steps for Creating Abundance by Deepak Chopra |
| Top
10% of Consumers Create Up to $5.7 Trillion in Environmental Damage
Annually By Ece Yildirim
(story posted on Gizmodo
June 18, 2026
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| Crew
member reveals appalling experience on billionaire's massive yacht: 'The
budget was unlimited' by Simon Sage (from The Cool Down January
4 2026) |
| More
Everything Forever by Adam Becker (book review by Ashley Yeager Science
News April 15 2025) |
| Too
many people are killed by supersized cars. This new rule could help. by
Marin Cogan
(from Vox, December 2024) |
| America's
Killer Cars (from The Economist September 7 2024)
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| ‘Cruisezilla’
passenger ships have doubled in size since 2000, campaigners warn (from
The Guardian August 7 2024)
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| The
reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large
cars by David Zipper (
from VOX April 28 2024) |
| Greta
Thunberg ends year with one of the greatest tweets in history by Rebecca
Solnit (from The Guardian December 27 2022) |
| Electric
Vehicles Are Bringing Out the Worst in Us: The downside of heavy,
overpowered trucks and SUVs by David Zipper
(from The Atlantic Jan 4 2023) |
| Most electric cars are quiet. But Dodge says its future electric muscle car will be super loud
by Peter Valdes-Dapena (CNN, August 17 2022) |
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How
trucks became America's new status symbol /People will just keep spending
more and more on trucks. by Morgan Korn (ABC News June 11
2022) |
| “Big
Cars Are Killing Americans” By
Angie Schmitt (from The Atlantic December 29 2021) |
| “Heavier
electric vehicles increase safety risks, study says” by Ben Geman (report posted on Axios Oct 26 2021)
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|
This
Obscene Motorhome Includes a Slide Out Garage
by Andrew Liszewski (story from Gizmodo September
7 2021) |
| “What
Happened to Pickup Trucks?” By Angie Schmitt
(article on Bloomberg
Mar 11 2021) |
| Interplanetary
Settlement—The World is Not Enough --Human Colony on Mars (report
from The Economist October 1 2016) |
| "I
despise lotteries, but I bought four Powerball tickets anyway. I’m weak."
by P. Dvorak (Jan 2016 commentary on $1.3 billion lottery from The
Washington Post) |
| "The Neiman Marcus Catalogue: Hold the Myrrh"
(article about Xmas shopping excesses from The Economist Oct 18 2014) |
| "How
Mega Millions Became a $586 Million Phenomenon" (Dec 16 2013 USA
Today story on a lottery with super jackpot payoff) |
| "Supercharged
2015 Chevy Corvette..." (Jan 15 2014 article/video about the 625
Hp sports car) |
| "Land of the Corporate Giants"
(article from The Economist Nov 3 2012) |
| "Technology
Advances, Humans Supersize" by P. Cohen (health & human
evolution, 2011 NY Times article) |
| "Tiger
Woods Ex-Wife Bulldozes $12 million Home" by Shane Bacon (Jan 5
2011 Yahoo Sports article) |
| "Forget
Frugality, Focus on Earning More" by Ramit Sethi (Apr 28 2011 NY
Times article) |
| "Our
Super-Sized Kids--How America's Children Packed on the Pounds, by Jeffrey
Kluger (article in Time June 23 2008) |
| Book
Review of Better Not Bigger, book by Eben Fodor |
| I
Love My SUV, by Ray Keating |
| I
Love My SUV Despite Its MPG, by Colin Hurlock, editor at MSNBC |
| Chasing
the SUV Vote |
| "The Politics of Very Big Trucks"
(October 6 2012 article in The Economist) |
| The
Big Screen (a Stanford student's prank / commentary) |
| People of
Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character, by David M. Potter
(read at Google Books) |
| A
Man in Full, by Tom Wolfe (American consumer
excess is major theme in this 1998 novel; from online encyclopedia) |
|
American Mania -- When More is Not
Enough (book by director of UCLA Neuropsychiatric Inst.) |
|
Feature
Fatigue -- When Product Capabilities Become Too Much of a Good Thing (J.
of Marketing Research article) |
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Quirky
Foes and Owners of Invading Monster Mansions (NY Times book review of Rattled
and Lapham Rising) |
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quotes
about excess and related topics |
