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What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know about Capitalism

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ISBN-10: 1583672419

ISBN-13: 9781583672419

Edition: 2011

Authors: Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster

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Praise for Foster and Magdoff's The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.-- Publishers Weekly There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and chemical pollution all threaten our future unless we act. What is less clear is how humanity should respond. The…    
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Book details

List price: $12.99
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Monthly Review Press
Publication date: 1/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 5.45" wide x 8.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.484
Language: English

Fred Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press).

John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), Critique of Intelligent Design (with Brett Clark and Richard York), Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx’s Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet.

Preface
The Planetary Ecological Crisis
Business as Usual: The Road to Planetary Destruction
The Growth Imperative of Capitalism
The Environment and Capitalism
Can Capitalism Go Green?
An Ecological Revolution Is Not Just Possible-It's Essential
Appendix: Peoples' Agreement (Pueblos Acuerdos): World Peoples' Conference on Climate Change
Notes
Index