Global capitalism and climate change [electronic resource] : the need for an alternative world system / Hans A. Baer.

By: Baer, Hans A, 1944-Contributor(s): ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextSeries: Globalization and the environmentPublication details: Lanham, Md. : AltaMira Press, 2012Description: xi, 353 pISBN: 9780759121348 (electronic bk.)Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Economic aspects | Globalization | Sustainable developmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 330.12/6 LOC classification: QC903 | .B14 2012Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies -- The capitalist world system and its contradictions -- The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions -- The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change -- Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change -- A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability -- Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms -- Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally -- Conclusion.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies -- The capitalist world system and its contradictions -- The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions -- The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change -- Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change -- A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability -- Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms -- Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally -- Conclusion.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

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