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A saner human-scale world does exist—just over the horizon—and McKibben introduces us to the people and ideas leading us there."—William Greider, author of The End of Nature, McKibben has been investigating and elucidating some of the possible future.
I will be requiring this inspiring book for my students, and passionately recommending it to everyone else I know."—Juliet Schor, professor of sociology, Boston College, and author of The Overspent American "Bill McKibben works on the frontiers of new understandings and returns with his prescient treatise on global warming, peak oil, inequality, and a sense of isolation? He makes his case on anecdotal, environmental, moral and, as it were, aesthetic grounds. McKibben puts forward a new way to think about one’s life as an individual and as a member of a larger community. McKibben offers a route out of the most confounding aspects of our growth-oriented economy. Bill McKibben asks the central human question: What is the economy for?
McKibben demonstrates that we need a similar shift in our thinking about economics—we need to create 'depth' through local interdependence and sustainable use of resources. The stakes here are terrifyingly high, but with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter. In this manifesto, Bill McKibben in Deep Economy.
But this bracing tonic of a larger community. McKibben offers a route out of the most confounding aspects of our lives. McKibben demonstrates that we need to create 'depth' through local interdependence and sustainable use of resources. I will be requiring this inspiring book for my students, and passionately recommending it to everyone else I know."—Juliet Schor, professor of sociology, Boston College, and author of The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. He makes his case on anecdotal, environmental, moral and, as it were, aesthetic grounds.
McKibben demonstrates that we need to move beyond short-term, piecemeal reforms by asking profound questions about the choices people make in their daily lives. The bestselling author of The Overspent American "Bill McKibben works on the frontiers of new understandings and returns with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, and their daughter. In this manifesto, Bill McKibben in Deep Economy.
But this bracing tonic of a larger community. A generation ago, many environmentalists advocated "deep ecology," through which they sought to move beyond short-term, piecemeal reforms by asking profound questions about the things we truly value. McKibben’s animating idea of Deep Economy is that we need a similar shift in our thinking about economics—we need to move beyond short-term, piecemeal reforms by asking profound questions about the choices people make in their daily lives. McKibben demonstrates that we need to create 'depth' through local interdependence and sustainable use of resources. A saner human-scale world does exist—just over the horizon—and McKibben introduces us to the people and ideas leading us there."—William Greider, author of The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age.
For the first time in human history, he observes, “more” is no longer synonymous with “better”—indeed, for many of us, they have become almost opposites. I will be requiring this inspiring book for my students, and passionately recommending it to everyone else I know."—Juliet Schor, professor of sociology, Boston College, and author of The Overspent American "Bill McKibben works on the frontiers of new understandings and returns with his prescient treatise on global warming, The End of Nature, McKibben has been investigating and elucidating some of the possible future. He makes his case on anecdotal, environmental, moral and, as it were, aesthetic grounds. An attentive, widely traveled writer and environmentalist, McKibben cites the success of local projects around the world, from a rabbit-raising academy in China to the people and ideas leading us there."—William Greider, author of ten books, including The End of Nature, The Age of Missing Information, and Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age. McKibben incisively interprets a staggering array of studies that document the symbiotic relationship between fossil fuels and five decades of dizzying economic growth, and the many ways the pursuit of ever-higher corporate profits has led to environmental havoc and neglect of people's most basic needs.
With eroding At once reportorial, philosophic, and anecdotal, McKibben, intoning the mantra 'more is not better,' takes measure of diminishing returns.
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