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Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition - Driving to Extinction (Hardcover)
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Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition - Driving to Extinction (Hardcover)
Series: Environment and Society
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The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this
number continues to increase as developing countries imitate
developed societies in their adoption of the culture of
automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor
vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental
crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic
climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major
contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that
motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the
social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of
the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of
the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences
of humanity’s increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly
private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a
species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that
such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an
alternative world system based on social justice, democratic
processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one
termed democratic eco-socialism.
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