Bridge at the Edge of the World Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

Name: Bridge at the Edge of the World Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
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ISBN: 9780300136111

ISBN-10: 0300136110

ISBN-13: 9780300136111

Edition: 2008

Authors: James Gustave Speth

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How serious are the threats to our environment? Here is one measure of the problem: if we continue to do exactly what we are doing, withnogrowth in the human population or the world economy, the world in the latter part of this century will be unfit to live in. Of course human activities are not holding at current levels—they are accelerating, dramatically—and so, too, is the pace of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment, and toxification. In this book Gus Speth, author ofRed Sky at Morningand a widely respected environmentalist, begins with the observation that the environmental community has grown in strength and sophistication, but the environment has continued to decline, to the…

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List price: $43.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/28/2008
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 336
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: Between Two Worlds



System Failure



Looking into the Abyss



Modern Capitalism: Out of Control



The Limits of Today's Environmentalism



The Great Transformation



The Market: Making It Work for the Environment



Economic Growth: Moving to a Post-Growth Society



Real Growth: Promoting the Well-Being of People and Nature



Consumption: Living with Enough, Not Always More



The Corporation: Changing the Fundamental Dynamics



Capitalism's Core: Advancing beyond Today's Capitalism



Seedbeds of Transformation



A New Consciousness



A New Politics



The Bridge at the Edge of the World


Notes


Index