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How well do we grasp the impacts of our habits of consumption on the world? Does it really make a difference at the poles, or in small island states threatened by sea-level rise, just what food we choose to put into our bodies? How do we imagine ourselves in relation to the environments we inhabit?

The business-as-usual work week significantly affects how people structure their lives. Environmental philosopher Kate Soper takes this observation a step further, reflecting on some of the effects on the environment of compartmentalizing and organizing our societies according to the paradigms of work and leisure, production and consumer culture.