Greed to Green Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy

Name: Greed to Green Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy
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ISBN: 9781594518126

ISBN-10: 1594518122

ISBN-13: 9781594518126

Edition: 2013

Authors: Charles Derber

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This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing, Derber shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unless we rapidly transform our economy and create a new green American Dream Derber shows there is hope in the financial meltdown and Great Recession we are now suffering. The economic crisis has raised deep questions about Wall Street and the US capitalist model. Derber systematically explores the causal links between…

Book details

List price: $37.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 2/28/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 272
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.122
Language: English

Charles Derber, Professor of Sociology at Boston College, has written for Newsday, Newsweek, Business Week, Time, the Christian Science Monitor, and other magazines. He speaks frequently on National Public Radio, talk radio, and television. His most recent book is Capitalism: Should You Buy It? An Invitation to Political Economy (Paradigm 2014).



Introduction: Capitalism's Time Bomb and the Fierce Urgency of Now



Truth and Denial



Brain and Belly: Scientific, Popular, and Gut Truths



Scientists United: The Climatic Consensus



The X-Rated Truth: Tipping Points and Points of No Return



The New Greening of America: Truth and Truth Gaps in an Awakening Public



The New Denial of Death: The Psychology of Pale Green



Boomers and Millennials: Generational Truth and Denial



The Denial Regime: Exxon, the GOP, and the Official Doubting Thomases



How to Green America



Good Timing: Economic Meltdown and Regime Change at Home (coauthored with Yale Magrass)



Blind Markets: How Capitalism Creates Climate Change



The 90 Percent Solution: How to Change Wall Street, Energy Firms, and the Corporate System



The Green American Dream: Living More with Less



Through and after Depression: How Long-Term Climate Change Solutions Are the Best Medicine for Our Four Other Biggest Short-Term Crises



Green Globalization



The West and the Rest: One: Why It Takes a Global Village to Cool the World



The West and the Rest: Two: Green Globalization and a Global New Deal



When the Grass Roots Grow Green



And Along Came Obama: Yes, We Can!



Blessed Unrest Revisited: Existential Threats and the Reinvention of Social Movements



Making a Life and Making History: From Bowling Alone to Bowling Green


Notes


Index


Acknowledgments


About the Author