By John Bellamy Foster, Fred Magdoff
There's a becoming consensus that the planet is heading towards environmental disaster: weather switch, ocean acidification, ozone depletion, international freshwater use, lack of biodiversity, and chemical pollutants all threaten our destiny until we act. what's much less transparent is how humanity may still reply. The modern environmental circulate is the positioning of many competing plans and prescriptions, and composed of a various set of actors, from militant activists to company leader executives.
This brief, readable ebook is a sharply argued manifesto for these environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Environmental and fiscal students Magdoff and Foster contend that the fight to opposite ecological degradation calls for an organization snatch of financial truth. Going additional, they argue that efforts to reform capitalism alongside environmental traces or count exclusively on new know-how to sidestep disaster misses the purpose. the most explanation for the looming environmental catastrophe is the riding common sense of the process itself, and people in power—no topic how “green”—are incapable of creating the adjustments which are necessary.
What each Environmentalist must learn about Capitalism tackles the 2 greatest problems with our time, the ecological situation and the faltering capitalist economic climate, in a manner that's thorough, available, and likely to impress debate within the environmental movement.
“I’m uncertain who must learn this relentlessly persuasive e-book extra: environmentalists who think we will remedy the ecological main issue with out confronting capitalism, or leftists who've but to acknowledge the ecological situation because the optimum expression of the capitalist probability. How approximately either, after which a few. Indispensable.” —Naomi Klein, writer, The surprise Doctrine
“As we trip throughout the early levels of the tip of the commercial brain an ecological global view awaits us at the horizon. we haven't any map, yet really a wildly oscillating compass needle. those daring grown-ups, outdated palms at difficult pondering, are steadying the needle. This ebook thoroughly reflected will demonstrate that capitalism is the made from summary inspiration whose particularity is to propel us to the sting of humanity’s model of a Petri dish.” —Wes Jackson, President, The Land Institute
“With the talk approximately environmental cave in so ruled by way of technological, inhabitants, and market-based suggestions, this e-book is a robust antidote. in simple terms by means of addressing worldwide capitalism do we wish to stay clear of disaster. Magdoff and Foster have written an up to date, obtainable, and accomplished account of a grim state of affairs, but be ready to motivate the reader with their demand an ‘ecological revolution,’ already in technique in components of the area. an important booklet for school room use, to offer to neighbors who have to study extra approximately what’s occurring to the planet, or for the nightstand as a continuous reminder of what’s particularly important.” —Juliet Schor, writer, True Wealth: How and Why hundreds of thousands of usa citizens are making a Time-Rich, Ecologically-Light, Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy
“A awesome creation to a vital dialog approximately capitalism’s skill to coexist with environmental growth. Magdoff and Foster do a very good task of addressing the $64000 matters at stake during this debate.” —Michael T. Klare, writer, Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet: the hot Geopolitics of Energy
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The gentlemen of the National,31 who took possession of that department, felt themselves borne down by the weight of the deficit. Many attempts were made at bit-by-bit reform; all proved abortive, excepting the abolition of the tax upon salt and the Postage Reform. At last, in a fit of despair, the Constituent Assembly voted the repeal of the wine tax, and now the "honest" and "moderate" men of order 3 2 in the present precious Assembly restore it! Nay, more: the Minister 3 intends restoring the salt tax, and re-augmenting the Postage; so that the old financial system, with its eternal déficiences and difficulties, and consequent absolute sway of the Paris Bourse, with its jobbing, peddling, and profitmongering, will very shortly be restored in France.
1. T h e First Chamber, now elected by the large landed proprietors and capitalists, to be a complete House of Lords, containing the royal princes, about one hundred hereditary peers chosen by his Majesty, sixty peers elected by the large landed proprietors, thirty by the large monied interest, six by the universities. 2. Ministers to be responsible to the king and country, not to the parliament. 3. All taxes now upon the budget to be levied for ever, without power of parliament to refuse. 4. A "Star Chamber", 18 or High Court of Justice, to try political offences—no mention being made of juries.
Thiers, Guizot, and others to the death-bed of Louis Philippe, at St. Leonards, had no other object than this. I shall not repeat to you the various versions as to the state of this affair, and the results obtained by the journey above mentioned. T h e daily papers have said more than enough about that. A fact, however, it is, that the Orleanist and Legitimist parties are in France pretty much agreed as to the conditions, and that the only difficulty is to have these conditions adopted by the two rival branches.