Global capitalism and climate change : the need for an alternative world system /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Lanham, Md. :
AltaMira Press,
[2012]
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| Series: | Globalization and the environment.
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Table of Contents:
- The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies
- The capitalist world system and its contradictions
- The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions
- The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change
- Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change
- A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability
- Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms
- Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally
- Conclusion.