Seeing Others - Michele Lamont product design EXTREMES – The Environmental Issue

EXTREMES – The Environmental Issue looks at the complexities of today’s human-nature relationship through two different lenses

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Seeing Others - Michele Lamont product design EXTREMES – The Environmental IssueFrom internationally renowned sociologist Michle Lamont, a game changing argument about what we value and why. How do we measure our self worth? For many of us, it signifies accomplishment, self reliance, and wealth. Decades of neoliberalism have driven our definition of success. Yet, as we have amassed more achievements, we have been overwhelmed and overworked in a world of growing inequality. Should we start judging others, and ourselves,