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Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
Yale University Press
April 2008
On Sale: March 28, 2008
320 pages
ISBN: 0300136110
EAN: 9780300136111
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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