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The great disruption : why the climate crisis will bring on the end of shopping and the birth of a new world  Cover Image Book Book

The great disruption : why the climate crisis will bring on the end of shopping and the birth of a new world / Paul Gilding.

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  • ISBN: 9781608192236 (hc. : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 1608192237 (hc. : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: 292 p. ; 25 cm.
  • Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-280) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Time to get ready -- An economic and social hurricane -- The scream : we are their children's children -- A very big problem -- Beyond the limits : the great disruption -- Addicted to growth -- Global foreshock : the year that growth stopped -- The road ahead : our planetary sat nav -- Are we finished? -- When the dam of denial breaks -- The one degree war -- How an Austrian economist could save the world -- Creative destruction on steroids : out with the old, in with the new -- Shifting sands : from Middle Eastern oil to Chinese sun -- The elephant in the room : growth doesn't work -- The happiness economy -- Yes, there is life after shopping -- No, the poor will not always be with us -- Ineffective inequality -- The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet -- Guess who's in charge?
Subject: Social ecology.
Economic development > Environmental aspects.
Economic development > Social aspects.
Social change.

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