The authors define affluenza as ""a painful, contagious, virally transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more"". Behind the wordplay is a serious subject indeed: the increasing deterioration of the natural world in the face of over-consumption.
The authors define affluenza as ""a painful, contagious, virally transmitted condition of overload, debt, anxiety, and waste resulting from the dogged pursuit of more"". Behind the wordplay is a serious subject indeed: the increasing deterioration of the natural world in the face of over-consumption.