Description
This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing, Derber shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unless we rapidly transform our economy and create a new green American Dream Derber shows there is hope in the financial meltdown and Great Recession we are now suffering. The economic crisis has raised deep questions about Wall Street and the US capitalist model. Derber systematically explores the causal links between capitalism and climate change, a taboo subject in the U.S, and opens up new thinking to solve both the economic and climate crises.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Part I Truth and Denial; Chapter 1 Brain and Belly; Chapter 2 Scientists United; Chapter 3 The X-Rated Truth; Chapter 4 The New Greening of America; Chapter 5 The New Denial of Death; Chapter 6 Boomers and Millennials; Chapter 7 The Denial Regime; Part II How to Green America; Chapter 8 Good Timing; Chapter 9 Blind Markets; Chapter 10 The 90 Percent Solution; Chapter 11 The Green American Dream; Chapter 12 Through and after Depression; Part III Green Globalization; Chapter 13 The West and the Rest: One; Chapter 14 The West and the Rest: Two; Part IV When the Grass Roots Grow Green; Chapter 15 And Along Came Obama; Chapter 16 Blessed Unrest Revisited; Chapter 17 Making a Life and Making History;
