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Virtual Consumption: A Second Life For Earth?, Albert C. Lin
Virtual Consumption: A Second Life For Earth?, Albert C. Lin
Albert C Lin
Consumption is at the root of many of the world’s greatest environmental challenges, yet laws or policies that directly address consumption are rare. Virtual worlds such as Second Life offer the intriguing prospect of displacing a substantial amount of real-world consumption without running afoul of the political and economic obstacles that proposals to reduce consumption often face. In the interactive online reality of virtual worlds, players adopt an “avatar” and participate in an electronic world that mirrors the real world in striking ways. As this Article explains, virtual worlds offer opportunities, experiences, and pleasures that satisfy many of the basic …