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The Glasgow Effect - A Tale of Class, Capitalism and Carbon Footprint (Paperback)
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The Glasgow Effect - A Tale of Class, Capitalism and Carbon Footprint (Paperback)
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Loot Price R273
Discovery Miles 2 730
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I will not travel beyond Glasgow’s city limits, or use any
vehicles except my bike, for a whole calendar year. – Ellie
Harrison, January 2016 This simple proposition – to attempt to
live a ‘low-carbon lifestyle of the future’ – put forward by
an English artist living in post-industrial Glasgow cut to the
heart of the unequal world we have created. A world in which some
live transient and disconnected existences within a global
‘knowledge economy’ racking up huge carbon footprints as they
chase work around the world, whilst others, trapped in a cycle of
poverty caused by deindustrialisation and the lack of local
opportunities, cannot even afford the bus fare into town. We’re
all equally miserable. Isn’t it time we rethought the way we live
our lives? In this, her first book, Ellie Harrison traces her own
life’s trajectory to examine the relationship between literal and
social mobility; between class and carbon footprint. From the
personal to the political, she uses experiences and knowledge
gained in Glasgow in 2016 and beyond, together with the ideas of
Patrick Geddes – who coined the phrase ‘Think Global, Act
Local’ in 1915, economist EF Schumacher who made the case for
localism in Small is Beautiful in 1973, and the Fearless Cities
movement of today, to put forward her own vision for ‘the
sustainable city of the future’, in which we can all live happy,
healthy and creative lives.
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