What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism
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| Rating | : | 4.52 (943 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583672419 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 160 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorFred Magdoff taught at the University of Vermont in Burlington, is a director of the Monthly Review Foundation, and has written on political economy for many years. He is most recently the author (with John Bellamy Foster) of The Great Financial Crisis: Causes and Consequences (Monthly Review Press).John Bellamy Foster is editor of Monthly Review. He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), Critique of Intelligent Design (with Brett Clark and Richard York), Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx’s E
He is professor of sociology at the University of Oregon and author of The Ecological Revolution, The Great Financial Crisis (with Fred Magdoff), Critique of Intelligent Design (with Brett Clark and Richard York), Ecology Against Capitalism, Marx’s Ecology, and The Vulnerable Planet.. Fred Magdoff taught at the University of Ve
The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power—no matter how “green”—are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism tackles the two largest issues of our time, the ecological crisis and the faltering capitalist economy, in a way that is thorough, accessible, and sure to provoke debate in the environmental movement.. Praise for Foster and Magdoff’s The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. Environmental and economic scholars Magdoff and Foster contend that the struggle to reverse ecological degradation requires a firm grasp of economic reality. This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers WeeklyThere is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversit
Augustus Carmichael said A solid case for ecological radicalism. "What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism" is Magdoff and Foster's attempt to convince environmentalists that the radical ecologist position is correct. Because of the enormity of ocean acidification, overpopulation, and climate change, drastic measures will be necessary in the near future in order to avoid the undoing of earth as a livable planet.. I finally made the connections and changed my actual behaviors after reading this book! What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know About Capitalism swirled my head so much an with such depth that I ended up writing a new keynote. Seriously - all that I kept thinking was Einstein's quote, "doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results is the definition of insanity." This makes sense to me- If Capitalism is the philosophy or way. Jayce L. said Five Stars. Great book and came quickly.