Jules Pretty

The Low-Carbon Good Life

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The Low-Carbon Good Life is about how to reverse and repair four interlocking crises arising from modern material consumption: the climate crisis, growing inequality, biodiversity loss, and food related ill-health.

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Produktdetails

• Routledge-SCORAI Studies in Sustainable Consumption
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781032388205
• ISBN-10: 103238820X
• Artikelnr.: 65612295

Autorenporträt

Jules Pretty is Professor of Environment and Society at the University of Essex. His books include Sea Sagas of the North, The East Country, The Edge of Extinction, This Luminous Coast and Agri-Culture. He advises governments, has won awards and prizes, chairs the Essex Climate Action Commission, is host of a podcast, and received an OBE in 2006.

Inhaltsangabe

Book Structure and Contents
Preface: Transgression
Thanks and Acknowledgements
The Illustrations
1 Dust and Air: A Dangerous New Economic Worldview
2 Ten Thousand Good Lives: Sustainable and Kind Ways of Living
3 The Climate Crisis: The Safety of One Tonne Each
4 The Inequality Crisis: Togetherness Is Better Than Selfishness
5 The Nature Crisis: Regaining Earthsong and Attentiveness
6 The Food and Agriculture Crisis: It's Nourishment, Not Calories
7 The Best Things in Life: How Immersion and Flow Make the World a Better
Place
8 Enoughness: Creative Slowth Is Better Than Infi nite Growth
9 Public Engagement and New Power: The Race to Net Zero
10 Transformation: Achieving the Low-Carbon Good Lives
Coda: Let's Dance, Together
Chapter Endnotes
Datasets for Figures and Tables
Bibliography
Index