No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
eBook - ePub

No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

  1. 192 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

About this book

The world's addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by progressives as the only possible solution for our economic and social woes. This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth–to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful. And then it goes beyond that to present the alternative–how we can kick our dirty habit, how degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive at a new levels of environmental sustainability without having to turn the clock back to the Dark Ages.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. About the author
  3. Acknowledgements
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright
  6. Foreword
  7. Contents
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The growth machine
  10. 2. Sources, sinks and services
  11. 3. Climate change and carbon footprints
  12. 4. Peak oil and tar sands
  13. 5. Profits, debt and the growth imperative
  14. 6. GDP and happiness
  15. 7. Life on the treadmill
  16. 8. On the road to degrowth
  17. Resources and organizations
  18. Index