The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to SustainabilityYale University Press, 1 окт. 2008 г. - Всего страниц: 320 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, with no growth 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 of Red Sky at Morning and 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 point that we are now at the edge of catastrophe. Speth contends that this situation is a severe indictment of the economic and political system we call modern capitalism. Our vital task is now to change the operating instructions for today's destructive world economy before it is too late. The book is about how to do that. |
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... income increased by only a couple of hundred dollars a year . But shortly thereafter the take - off began . By 2000 , populations had swelled by an additional five billion , and , astoundingly , economic output had grown to exceed forty ...
... income increased by only a couple of hundred dollars a year . But shortly thereafter the take - off began . By 2000 , populations had swelled by an additional five billion , and , astoundingly , economic output had grown to exceed forty ...
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... incomes of less than two dollars a day . The struggle of the poor to survive cre- ates a range of environmental impacts where the poor themselves are often the primary victims — for example , the deterioration of arid and semiarid lands ...
... incomes of less than two dollars a day . The struggle of the poor to survive cre- ates a range of environmental impacts where the poor themselves are often the primary victims — for example , the deterioration of arid and semiarid lands ...
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... incomes of those in America who have far too little; growth in human well-being along many dimensions; growth in new solution-oriented industries, products, and processes; growth in meaningful, well- paying jobs, including green-collar ...
... incomes of those in America who have far too little; growth in human well-being along many dimensions; growth in new solution-oriented industries, products, and processes; growth in meaningful, well- paying jobs, including green-collar ...
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... income distribution , and address growing economic and political inequality ; measures that recognize responsibilities to the half of humanity who live in poverty . If you raise these social issues in the councils of 12 INTRODUCTION.
... income distribution , and address growing economic and political inequality ; measures that recognize responsibilities to the half of humanity who live in poverty . If you raise these social issues in the councils of 12 INTRODUCTION.
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... income countries , about 15 percent of the world's people , are responsible for about 45 percent of the Global Ecological Footprint , and the United States is responsible for almost half of that total.78 Another way to measure ...
... income countries , about 15 percent of the world's people , are responsible for about 45 percent of the Global Ecological Footprint , and the United States is responsible for almost half of that total.78 Another way to measure ...
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Part Two The Great Transformation | 87 |
Part Three Seedbeds of Transformation | 197 |
Notes | 239 |
Index | 281 |
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