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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 / Paul Gilding.

Gilding, Paul, 1959-
2011
HM861 .G55 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
The great disruption : why the climate crisis will bring on the end of shopping and the birth of a new world / Paul Gilding.
Author
Gilding, Paul, 1959-
Edition
First U.S. edition.
ISBN
9781608192236 (alk. paper)
1608192237 (alk. paper)
Published
New York, NY : Bloomsbury Press, 2011.
Language
English
Description
292 pages ; 25 cm
Call Number
HM861 .G55 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
304.2
Summary
According to the author, the Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. The author claims we have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's ecosystems and resources. He sees the predicted crisis as a rare chance to replace our addiction to growth with an ethic of sustainability in which we will measure "growth" not by quantity of stuff but by quality and happiness of life.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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?

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