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Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
Troy Vettese
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Description for Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
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Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only "solutions" on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programs, catastrophic geoengineering schemes, and privatized conservation, which will do nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed, these mainstream approaches assume that consumption in the Global North can continue unabated. It can't.
What we can do, environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue, is strive for a society able to provide a comfortable standard of living while stabilizing the environment: half-earth socialism. This means:
- Rewilding half the Earth to ... Read more
Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only "solutions" on offer are toothless cap-and-trade programs, catastrophic geoengineering schemes, and privatized conservation, which will do nothing to reverse the damage suffered by the biosphere. Indeed, these mainstream approaches assume that consumption in the Global North can continue unabated. It can't.
What we can do, environmental scholars Troy Vettese and Drew Pendergrass argue, is strive for a society able to provide a comfortable standard of living while stabilizing the environment: half-earth socialism. This means:
- Rewilding half the Earth to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2022
Publisher
Verso
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781839760310
SKU
V9781839760310
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Ref
99-17
About Troy Vettese
Troy Vettese is an environmental historian and a Max Weber fellow at the European University Institute, where he is affiliated with the ECOINT project. He studies the history of environmental economics, energy-systems, and animal life under capitalism. His writing has appeared in Bookforum, New Left Review, the Guardian, n+1 and many other popular and scholarly publications. Drew Pendergrass is ... Read more
Reviews for Half-Earth Socialism: A Plan to Save the Future from Extinction, Climate Change and Pandemics
Half-Earth Socialism conclusively demonstrates how a liveable future requires a fundamentally different relationship to the Earth, the only home our species has ever known. A must read for post-capitalists and those who care about the climate crisis.
Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism The best way to subvert a dystopia is to plan a utopia. In Half-Earth ... Read more
Aaron Bastani, author of Fully Automated Luxury Communism The best way to subvert a dystopia is to plan a utopia. In Half-Earth ... Read more