The idea of sacrifice is the unspoken issue of environmental politics.                  Politicians, the media, and many environmentalists assume that well-off populations                  won't make sacrifices now for future environmental benefits and won't change their                  patterns and perceptions of consumption to make ecological room for the world's                  three billion or so poor eager to improve their standard of living. The                  Environmental Politics of Sacrifice challenges these assumptions, arguing that they                  limit our policy options, weaken our ability to imagine bold action for change, and                  blind us to the ways sacrifice already figures in everyday life. The concept of                  sacrifice has been curiously unexamined in both activist and academic conversations                  about environmental politics, and this book is the first to confront it directly.                  The chapters bring a variety of disciplinary perspectives to the topic. Contributors                  offer alternatives to the conventional wisdom on sacrifice; identify connections                  between sacrifice and human fulfillment in everyday life, finding such concrete                  examples as parents' sacrifices in raising children, religious practice, artists'                  pursuit of their art, and soldiers and policemen who risk their lives to do their                  jobs; and examine particular policies and practices that shape our understanding of                  environmental problems, including the carbon tax, incentives for cyclists, and the                  perils of green consumption. The Environmental Politics of Sacrifice puts                  "sacrifice" firmly into the conversation about effective environmental                  politics and policies, insisting that activists and scholars do more than change the                  subject when the idea is introduced.Contributors Peter Cannav?, Shane Gunster,                  Cheryl Hall, Karen Litfin, Michael Maniates, John M. Meyer, Simon Nicholson, Anna                  Peterson, Thomas Princen, Sudhir Chella Rajan, Paul Wapner, Justin                  Williams

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