Praise for Foster and Magdoff's The Great Financial Crisis In
this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis,
Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that
might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable
contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis,
one that deserves our full attention.--Publishers Weekly
There is a growing consensus that the planet is heading toward
environmental catastrophe: climate change, ocean acidification,
ozone depletion, global freshwater use, loss of biodiversity, and
chemical pollution all threaten our future unless we act. What is
less clear is how humanity should respond. The contemporary
environmental movement is the site of many competing plans and
prescriptions, and composed of a diverse set of actors, from
militant activists to corporate chief executives.
This short, readable book is a sharply argued manifesto for
those environmentalists who reject schemes of "green capitalism" or
piecemeal reform. Environmental and economic scholars Magdoff and
Foster contend that the struggle to reverse ecological degradation
requires a firm grasp of economic reality. Going further, they
argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines
or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the
point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the
driving logic of the system itself, and those in power--no matter
how "green"--are incapable of making the changes that are
necessary.
What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
tackles the two largest issues of our time, the ecological crisis
and the faltering capitalist economy, in a way that is thorough,
accessible, and sure to provoke debate in the environmental
movement.
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