Astonishing sense of prescience from Packard

Vance Packard demonstrated an astonishing sense of prescience when he wrote and published The Waster Makers in 1960.

Vance Packard's
 The Waste
Makers.

Packard, an American journalist, social critic, and author who died in 1996, wrote a lot about planned obsolescence, predicting with unerring accuracy the rise of powerful corporations and the unstinting consumerism, tied into the wasteful use of the world’s finite energy resources, and, beyond that a dilemma he probably sensed, but was without a name, climate change.

The Waste Makers is instructive reading for anyone eager to grasp a better understanding of how we have seemingly sleepwalked into climate change.

The late Vance Packard.

Actually Packard was not being intentionally clairvoyant, rather he simply exploring what existed and through that helping his reader’s sense that humanity’s frivolity, wasteful use of energy and the creation of a throw away world was creating generations of “waste makers”.

Those keen the better understand the dynamics that now trouble the world would be well advised to read and consider what Packard had to say.

Beneath the Wisteria supporter, Lou Cook, is something of a Vance Packard enthusiast and would be, I'm sure, to discuss with anyone ideas about Parkard's thoughts.