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Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #274121 in Books
- Published on: 2008-02-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 136 pages
Editorial Reviews
Synopsis
A polemic against 'Green Capitalism'. James Heartfield accuses the 'Green Capitalists' of profiteering over climate change and other environmental scares. Green capitalists like Zac Goldsmith and Al Gore are manufacturing scarcity to boost prices. The technological revolution has removed scarcity from most of our lives, but the green capitalists are trying to re-invent it. Chapters on 1. The age of plenty, 2. The retreat from production, 3. The green capitalists, 4. Manufactured scarcity, 5. Green consumerism, 6. The economy of wasting time, 7. Green imperialism, 8. Environmental economics, 9. Green socialism?, 10. The unnatural limits to growth, plus an appendix, The revolution in technique. Bibliography and index. 136 pp. Author James Heartfield wrote Let's Build! Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years (2006) The Creativity Gap (2005) The Death of the Subject Explained (2002). www.heartfield.org
Customer Reviews
Skeptical about environmentalism
This book is a great read for anyone who is perturbed by the mainstreaming of eco-thinking. The author elaborates on some great insights into what the age of green capitalism means for us all.
