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The Bridge at the Edge of the World; Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
by James Gustave SpethISBN13:
9780300151152
ISBN10:
0300151152
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Trade Paper
Pub. Date:
3/10/2009
Publisher(s):
Yale University Press
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Summary
The author of Red Sky at Morning would be the first to agree that we are in deep environmental trouble, but he offers hope that there is still time to avert global catastrophe. Gus Speth explores a wide variety of promising and even radical ideas for transforming modern capitalism so as to protect and restore the natural world. Book jacket.
Author Biography
James Gustave Speth, a distinguished leader and founder of environmental institutions over the past four decades, is dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He was awarded Japan’s Blue Planet Prize for “a lifetime of creative and visionary leadership in the search for science-based solutions to global environmental problems.” He lives in New Haven, CT.
Table of Contents
| Preface | p. ix |
| Acknowledgments | p. xviii |
| Introduction: Between Two Worlds | p. 1 |
| System Failure | |
| Looking into the Abyss | p. 17 |
| Modern Capitalism: Out of Control | p. 46 |
| The Limits of Today's Environmentalism | p. 67 |
| The Great Transformation | |
| The Market: Making It Work for the Environment | p. 89 |
| Economic Growth: Moving to a Post-Growth Society | p. 107 |
| Real Growth: Promoting the Well-Being of People and Nature | p. 126 |
| Consumption: Living with Enough, Not Always More | p. 147 |
| The Corporation: Changing the Fundamental Dynamics | p. 165 |
| Capitalism's Core: Advancing beyond Today's Capitalism | p. 183 |
| Seedbeds of Transformation | |
| A New Consciousness | p. 199 |
| A New Politics | p. 217 |
| The Bridge at the Edge of the World | p. 233 |
| Notes | p. 239 |
| Index | p. 281 |
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