The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by Speth, James Gustave
The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by Speth, James Gustave

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

"My point of departure in this book is the momentous environmental challenge we face. But today's environmental...
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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by Speth, James Gustave

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

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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability by Speth, James Gustave

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

$54.75
Author: James Gustave Speth
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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"My point of departure in this book is the momentous environmental challenge we face. But today's environmental reality is linked powerfully with other realities, including growing social inequality and neglect and the erosion of democratic governance and popular control. . . . As citizens we must now mobilize our spiritual and political resources for transformative change on all three fronts."--Gus Speth

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.



Author: James Gustave Speth
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 320
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.87lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.54w x 0.77d
ISBN: 9780300151152

About the Author

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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