TY - BOOK AU - Baer,Hans A. ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Global capitalism and climate change: the need for an alternative world system T2 - Globalization and the environment series AV - QC903 .B14 2012 U1 - 330.12/6 23 PY - 2012/// CY - Lanham, Md. PB - AltaMira Press KW - Climatic changes KW - Economic aspects KW - Globalization KW - Sustainable development KW - Electronic books N1 - 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 UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=977251 ER -