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The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability - Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon Constrained World (Hardcover, New)
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The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability - Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon Constrained World (Hardcover, New)
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Going against both the naive techno-optimism of 'greening business
as usual' and a resurgent 'catastrophism' within green thinking and
politics, The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability offers
an analysis of the causes of unsustainability and diminished human
flourishing. It makes a case for seeing that it is profound and
deepening unsustainability and growing injustice that characterizes
the modern world. The books locates the causes of unsustainability
in dominant capitalist modes of production, debt-based consumerism,
and the imperative for orthodox economic growth. It suggests that
valuable insights into the causes of and alternatives to
unsustainability can be found in a critical embracing of human
vulnerability and dependency as both constitutive and ineliminable
aspects of what it means to be human. Rather than seeing
invulnerability as the appropriate response, the book defends
resilience, the ability to 'cope with' rather than 'solve'
vulnerability, as a more productive strategy. The Politics of
Actually Existing Unsustainability offers a trenchant critique of
the dominant neoclassical economic groupthink, which the book
argues must be seen not as some value-neutral form of 'expert
knowledge' but as a thoroughly ideological 'common sense' that has
corrupted and limited creative ways of thinking about and through
our current predicament. It offers a green political economic
alternative which replaces economic growth with economic security,
and views economic growth as having done its work in the minority,
affluent world, which should now focus on human flourishing and
lowering socio-economic inequality and fostering solidarity as part
of that new re-orientation of public policy. Complementing this
green political economy, the book outlines and develops an account
of 'green republicanism', which represents an innovative and
original contribution to debates on the political responses to the
crises and opportunities of global unsustainability. The Politics
of Actually Existing Unsustainability draws widely from a range of
disciplines and thinkers to produce a highly relevant, timely, and
provocatively original statement on the human predicament in the
twenty-first century.
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