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Author |
: Joy, Richard |
Publisher |
: Policy Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2021-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781529218046 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1529218047 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable by : Joy, Richard
This book is an urgent call to reimagine our social, political and economic systems so that we might transform to a sustainable society. It considers whether an alternative economic model is possible and examines the factors needed to enable such a transition to occur. The scale and pace of change is unprecedented and the author examines the actions that have to be taken by governments, business and individuals if we are to address the environmental disaster that confronts us. Much needs to change but ultimately, this is a book of hope, believing that evolution to a better, more sustainable society is possible.
Author |
: Peter N. Nemetz |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 525 |
Release |
: 2022-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000540901 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000540901 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (01 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable World by : Peter N. Nemetz
Using a cross-disciplinary, science- and economics-based approach, this book provides a sobering and comprehensive assessment of the multifaceted barriers to achieving sustainability at a global level. Organized into three parts, the book defines sustainability in part I and sets the context of the historical and current difficulties facing the world today. In parts II and III, it outlines the sustainability challenges faced in transportation, manufacturing, and agriculture, and then in turn addresses the solutions, conditional solutions, and nonsolutions to these challenges. These include electric and autonomous automobiles, nuclear power, renewable energy, geoengineering, and carbon capture and storage. The author attempts to differentiate among those proposed solutions and discusses which are most promising and which are infeasible, counterproductive, and potentially a waste of time and money. In each of the book’s chapters, the scientific evidence is presented in detail, in keeping with the advice of the young Swedish climate activist, Greta Thunberg, to let the science speak for itself. The author outlines why sustainability is unlikely to be achieved in several key areas of human endeavor and readers are challenged to weigh the scientific evidence for themselves. Using an economic business-based approach, this book introduces students and general readers to the challenges of sustainability and the environmental difficulties facing humanity today.
Author |
: Lucas Chancel |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2020-10-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674250659 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674250656 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (59 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable Inequalities by : Lucas Chancel
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A hardheaded book that confronts and outlines possible solutions to a seemingly intractable problem: that helping the poor often hurts the environment, and vice versa. Can we fight poverty and inequality while protecting the environment? The challenges are obvious. To rise out of poverty is to consume more resources, almost by definition. And many measures to combat pollution lead to job losses and higher prices that mainly hurt the poor. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas Chancel confronts these difficulties head-on, arguing that the goals of social justice and a greener world can be compatible, but that progress requires substantial changes in public policy. Chancel begins by reviewing the problems. Human actions have put the natural world under unprecedented pressure. The poor are least to blame but suffer the most—forced to live with pollutants that the polluters themselves pay to avoid. But Chancel shows that policy pioneers worldwide are charting a way forward. Building on their success, governments and other large-scale organizations must start by doing much more simply to measure and map environmental inequalities. We need to break down the walls between traditional social policy and environmental protection—making sure, for example, that the poor benefit most from carbon taxes. And we need much better coordination between the center, where policies are set, and local authorities on the front lines of deprivation and contamination. A rare work that combines the quantitative skills of an economist with the argumentative rigor of a philosopher, Unsustainable Inequalities shows that there is still hope for solving even seemingly intractable social problems.
Author |
: Patrick Hossay |
Publisher |
: Zed Books |
Total Pages |
: 296 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015063224110 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable by : Patrick Hossay
Aimed at an audience, including both budding social activists and young people studying the environment and international development, this book explains how these crises share the same historical roots. Brilliantly combining a huge amount of up-to-date information, visual charts, and clear explanation, Patrick Hossay shows how an historical path of colonialism, capitalist development and industrial growth has yielded bad results. He proposes a fundamental restructuring of the way business is done, and the book suggests ways in which we can work for lasting change.
Author |
: James MacDougald |
Publisher |
: The Free Enterprise Nation |
Total Pages |
: 335 |
Release |
: 2010-06-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780615376448 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0615376444 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable by : James MacDougald
UNSUSTAINABLE is packed with information that is vital to every taxpaying American. It reveals shocking information that has long been hidden from the public. It exposes how governments at every level hide the pay and exorbitant pensions they provide to themselves and use accounting trickery to keep taxpayers from knowing of the enormous costs and long-term liabilities. MacDougald shows how the federal government keeps $106 trillion of debt hidden from taxpayers, and how state and local governments hide another $3 trillion. He exposes exactly how governments often trick taxpayers into agreeing to pay more and more taxes to "save schools" or "provide police protection" when the money really goes to more pay and bigger pensions. UNSUSTAINABLE details how public sector unions have become a "money pump," taking taxpayer dollars paid to public sector workers, then given as union dues, and then used for political contributions to politicians who will support the extraction of even more taxpayer dollars. The provocative and controversial book also documents and exposes the huge financial catastrophe that is about to befall Social Security, "baby boomers" and our younger workers and how it will threaten our economy for decades. UNSUSTAINABLE addresses the "jobs squeeze," detailing how the private sector lost 1.5 million jobs in the last decade even as government grew by 2 million. And it reveals how Congress passes laws that they know violate our Constitutional rights and gets away with it. It is a book that all Americans, no matter what their politics, must read.
Author |
: Joy, Richard |
Publisher |
: Policy Press |
Total Pages |
: 258 |
Release |
: 2021-10-13 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781529218039 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1529218039 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (39 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable by : Joy, Richard
This book is an urgent call to reimagine our social, political and economic systems so that we might transform to a sustainable society. It considers whether an alternative economic model is possible and examines the factors needed to enable such a transition to occur. The scale and pace of change is unprecedented and the author examines the actions that have to be taken by governments, business and individuals if we are to address the environmental disaster that confronts us. Much needs to change but ultimately, this is a book of hope, believing that evolution to a better, more sustainable society is possible.
Author |
: Jon Gordon |
Publisher |
: University of Alberta |
Total Pages |
: 297 |
Release |
: 2016-04-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781772120981 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1772120987 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable Oil by : Jon Gordon
"Sustainable development is, for government and industry at least, primarily a way of turning trees into lumber, tar into oil, and critique into consent; a way to defend the status quo of growth at any cost." —from the Introduction In Unsustainable Oil: Facts, Counterfacts and Fictions, Jon Gordon makes the case for re-evaluating the theoretical, political, and environmental issues around petroleum extraction. Doing so, he argues, will reinvigorate our understanding of the culture and the ethics of energy production in Canada. Rather than looking for better facts or better interpretations of the facts, Gordon challenges us to embrace the future after oil. Reading fiction can help us understand the cultural-ecological crisis that we inhabit. In Unsustainable Oil, using the lens of Alberta’s bituminous sands, he asks us to consider literature’s potential to open space for creative alternatives.
Author |
: Lucas Chancel |
Publisher |
: Belknap Press |
Total Pages |
: 185 |
Release |
: 2020 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674984653 |
ISBN-13 |
: 067498465X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (53 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable Inequalities by : Lucas Chancel
The greatest dilemma our planet faces is the tradeoff between poverty alleviation, inequality reduction, and climate change. In Unsustainable Inequalities, economist Lucas Chancel confronts how to share prosperity without furthering environmental harm, arguing for policies that would direct the benefits of environmental protection to the poor.
Author |
: David Banister |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2005-09-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781134325115 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1134325118 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (15 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable Transport by : David Banister
This book addresses the links between transport and sustainable urban development, from an analysis of the global picture to issues in transport and energy intensity, public policy and the institutional and organisational constraints on change. The central part of the book explores these links in more detail at city level, covering land use and development, economic measures, and the role that technology can play. The final part looks for inspiration from events in developing countries and the means by which we can move from the unsustainable present to a more sustainable future.
Author |
: Jeff Hearn |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2018-12-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781351606219 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1351606212 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Unsustainable Institutions of Men by : Jeff Hearn
How are men, masculinities and gender power implicated within global institutions? How are global institutions to be understood in terms of men, masculinities and gender power? What are men up to in such arenas as: global finance, corporate law, military intelligence, world sporting bodies and nationalist politics? Unsustainable Institutions of Men examines men’s dealings in transnational processes across the economy, politics, technologies and bodies. In exploring the men’s domination of institutions in national and transnational realms this volume underpins a novel approach built around multiple "dispersed centres" of men’s power. Indeed, in critical discussions of men and masculinities there has been a gradual shift in focus from the local, so-called ‘ethnographic moment’, to a broader view encompassing several dynamics (e.g. global, transnational, international, postcolonial and the global north-south). Building on this conceptual move, Unsustainable Institutions of Men focuses on pinpointing masculine actions and influences that support and enact transnational processes, disclosing those connections and examining institutional alternatives which could contribute to more inclusive and democratic transnational dialogues. Comprised of a range of international contributions, Unsustainable Institutions of Men will appeal to students, researchers, experts and activists seeking to understand the deep structural conditions of contemporary globalized threats, created by old and new patterns of gender power and transnational patriarchies.