The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability - Hardcover

Speth, James Gustave

 
9780300136111: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300136110 ISBN 13: 9780300136111
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

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, withno 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 levelsthey are accelerating, dramaticallyand so, too, is the pace of climate disruption, biotic impoverishment, and toxification. In this book Gus Speth, author ofRed 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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300136110
ISBN 13 
9780300136111
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Anzahl der Seiten
336
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