Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System
Globalization and the Environment

Global Capitalism and Climate Change: The Need for an Alternative World System

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Publisher Description

Many progressive scholars, particularly in the social sciences, have increasingly come to acknowledge that anthropogenic climate change constitutes yet another contradiction of global capitalism. This book constitutes an effort to develop a critical social science of climate change, one that posits its roots in global capitalism with its emphasis on profit-making, a treadmill of production and consumption, heavy reliance on fossil fuels, and commitment to ongoing economic expansion. It explores the systemic changes necessary to create a more socially just and sustainable world system that would possibly start to move humanity toward a safer climate and discusses the role of a burgeoning climate movement in this effort.

GENRE
Politics & Current Events
RELEASED
2012
June 28
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
366
Pages
PUBLISHER
AltaMira Press
SELLER
The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group
SIZE
1.6
MB

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