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Growth for Good - Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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Growth for Good - Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe (Hardcover)
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A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year From the front lines of
economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth
is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight
against climate change. Economic growth is wrecking the planet.
It's the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the
shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have
to shrink the economy? Might this even lead to a better society,
especially in rich nations, helping us break free from a pointless
obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio
Terzi takes these legitimate questions as a starting point for a
riveting journey into the socioeconomic, evolutionary, and cultural
origins of our need for growth. It's an imperative, he argues, that
we abandon at our own risk. Terzi ranges across centuries and
diverse civilizations to show that focus on economic expansion is
deeply interwoven with the human quest for happiness, well-being,
and self-determination. Growth, he argues, is underpinned by core
principles and dynamics behind the West's rise to affluence. These
include the positivism of the Enlightenment, the acceleration of
science and technology and, ultimately, progress itself. Today
growth contributes to the stability of liberal democracy, the
peaceful conduct of international relations, and the very way our
society is organized through capitalism. Abandoning growth would
not only prove impractical, but would also sow chaos, exacerbating
conflict within and among societies. This does not mean we have to
choose between chaos and environmental destruction. Growth for Good
presents a credible agenda to enroll capitalism in the fight
against climate catastrophe. With the right policies and the help
of engaged citizens, pioneering nations can set in motion a global
decarbonization wave and in parallel create good jobs and a better,
greener, healthier world.
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