Hans A. Baer

Global Capitalism and Climate Change (eBook, ePUB)

The Need for an Alternative World System

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780759121348
• Artikelnr.: 38485217

Autorenporträt

Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. Hans was a Fulbright Scholar in at Humboldt University in East Berlin in the German Democratic Republic in 1988-1989. He has taught at several US universities, including George Peabody College for Teachers, St. John's University, the University of Southern Mississippi, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, the University of California - Berkeley, Arizona State University, and at two Australian universities, namely the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1: The Impact of Climate Change on the Environment and Human
Societies
Chapter 2: The Capitalist World System and its Contradictions
Chapter 3: The Capitalist Treadmill of Production and Consumption as a
Generator of Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Chapter 4: The Inadequacies of Existing Climate Regimes for Mitigating
Climate Change
Chapter 5: Why Green Capitalism is Insufficient to Mitigate Climate Change
Chapter 6: A Vision of an Alternative World System: Toward Global Democracy
Based on Social Justice and Environmental Sustainability
Chapter 7: Toward an Ecological Revolution: Progressive Transitional
Reforms
Chapter 8: Grass-roots Responses to the Climate Change: Internationally,
Nationally, and Locally
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Resource Guide
Bibliography
Index
About the Author