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Half-Earth Socialism - A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Hardcover)
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Half-Earth Socialism - A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics (Hardcover)
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Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future
of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only "solutions"
on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programs, catastrophic
geoengineering schemes, and privatized conservation, which will do
nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed,
these mainstream approaches assume that consumption in the Global
North can continue unabated. It can't. What we can do,
environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue, is
strive for a society able to provide a comfortable standard of
living while stabilizing the environment: half-earth socialism.
This means: - Rewilding half the Earth to absorb carbon emissions
and restore biodiversity. - A rapid transition to renewable energy,
paired with drastic cuts in consumption by the world's wealthiest.
- Global veganism to cut down on energy and land use. - Worldwide
socialist planning to efficiently and equitably manage production.
- The involvement of everyone - even you! As this thrilling and
provocative book makes clear, we must humbly accept that we cannot
fully understand or control the Earth - but we can control our
economic system, and we can regulate energy and land use for the
common good.
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