Gar W. Lipow

Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change (eBook, ePUB)

Public Investment in Social Prosperity to Cool a Fevered Planet

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book presents an accessible and easy-to-follow argument that the climate crisis is a side effect of inequality and injustice, and demonstrates how strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more effective in reducing greenhouse gas pollution than cap-and-trade or other forms of free-market environmentalism. Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change: Public Investment in Social Prosperity to Cool a Fevered Planet offers a new approach to battling the climate crisis, arguing that the massive waste that caused the current environmental crisis resulted not only from fundamental structural flaws in markets but also from social inequality, lack of democracy, and a deeply flawed foreign policy. Rather than providing the typical doomsday perspective, it offers realistic optimism about the expanding climate crisis, highlighting the convergence between the necessary steps to save the planet and what needs to be done to improve the lives of Americans. The author's discussion of the United States's role in the climate crisis spans subjects as varied as the 17th-century forests of New England, the evolution of housework over 200 years, the American addiction to the automobile, the lettuce fields of California in the 1970s, and the Guano wars in 19th-century Bolivia, Chile, and Peru. This book will appeal to a wide range of readers, from the interested general public to students, academics, professionals, and other experts. The main section presents a clear and accessible survey of the economic, social, and political causes of the climate crisis, accompanied by potential solutions, while extensive appendixes offer in-depth and technical discussions.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216146858
• Artikelnr.: 68342797

Autorenporträt

Gar W. Lipow is an activist and independent journalist.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Acknowledgments 1 Introduction PART I: SOLVING THE CLIMATE
CRISIS Section I: Sources of Waste 2 Markets Inefficiently and Wastefully
Address Costs Such as Energy, Emissions, and Water 3 Nonmarket Social
Failures Also Cause the Waste That Leads to Climate Change Section II:
Solutions That Directly Tackle the Climate Crisis Will Increase Prosperity
as a Side Effect 4 Reducing and Compensating for Inequality and Atomization
5 Public Investment Is One Direct Solution to the Climate Crisis 6 Where
Will the Money for Public Investment Come From? 7 Public Investment Will
Increase GDP and Prosperity 8 Rule-Based Regulation 9 Emission Pricing Can
Reinforce Public Investment and Regulations as Solutions to the Climate
Crisis 10 Other Direct Policies: Surviving the Harm We Have Already Done,
Climate Justice, and Trade Section III: Policies That Indirectly Lower
Emissions as a Side Effect of Increasing Prosperity 11 Social Consumption
12 Leisure, GDP, and Sustainability Section IV: Conclusion to Part I 13
Politics: "If You Wanna Get to Heaven, You Got to Raise a Little Hell"
PART II: EXTENDED DISCUSSION AND APPENDICES Section I: Extended Discussion
14 Technological Solutions 15 Nuclear Energy 16 Measuring Military Spending
17 Why the Deficit Is Not a Problem Section II: Appendices 18 Energy Demand
Elasticity 19 The Energy Efficiency Gap 20 Accounting for Resource Flows
Glossary References Index