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The extinction curve : growth and globalisation in the climate endgame / John van der Velden, Rob White.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Van der Velden, John, author.
- White, R. D., 1956- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Capitalism--Environmental aspects.
- Capitalism.
- Environmental economics.
- Social evolution.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (177 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- First edition
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, [2021]
- Summary:
- Attempts to create a greener capitalism have failed and the world stands on the edge of a climate and ecological catastrophe. This book maps out a fresh direction - based on a democratic social, economic and sustainable ecological transformation in the interests of the global majority - and demonstrates precisely how this can be achieved.
- Contents:
- Cover
- THE EXTINCTION CURVE
- THE EXTINCTION CURVE: Growth and Globalisation in the Climate Endgame
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- ABOUT THE AUTHORS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1. At Dante's Gate
- Our Historical Moment
- Us, Here, Now
- The Climb
- Yes, We Can
- This Book
- 2. Beyond the Holocene Edge
- Why the Holocene Context Is Important
- The Post-holocene Transition
- A Globalised Capitalism
- 3. The Extinction Code within the Capitalist Growth Protocol
- Capitalism Requires Growth
- Capital and Capitalism
- Exploitation, Self-interest, Extinction
- Structural Dynamics and Contradictions
- The Debt Problem and Climate Crisis
- 4. Fracturing Consent: Minions, Mercenaries, Malcontents and Les Misérables
- Why This Matters
- Cross-class Consent
- Friends with Benefits: The Petty-Bourgeois Middle Layers
- Fracturing Consent: Malcontents and Les Misérables
- Fracturing the Hegemonic Centre
- 5. Rebelling for a Green Capitalism Is a Dead End
- A Convergent Moment
- Time's Up
- Endgame
- A Conservatised Radicalism
- Green New Deal
- What Next?
- 6. Green Gloom, Busted Boom, Barbarous Doom: What's Left?
- What's Left?
- A Transformational Moment
- A Transformational Convergence
- Structural Antecedents for Transformation
- Structural Democratisation of Class
- Socialisation of the Forces of Production
- Concentration and Centralisation of Capital
- Economic Centrality of the Capitalist State
- Where to from Here?
- 7. Common Cause: Equality, Ecology, Re-construction
- An Eco-socialist Transformation
- The Primacy of Meeting Social Need
- Democratised Expropriation and Re-distribution
- A Transformational Nationalisation
- Building a Subordinate Class Agenda
- Ending at the Beginning
- FURTHER READING
- CHAPTER 1: AT DANTE'S GATE
- CHAPTER 2: BEYOND THE HOLOCENE EDGE.
- CHAPTER 3: THE EXTINCTION CODE WITHIN THE CAPITALIST GROWTH PROTOCOL
- CHAPTER 4: FRACTURING CONSENT: MINIONS, MERCENARIES, MALCONTENTS AND LES MIS´ERABLES
- CHAPTER 5: REBELLING FOR A GREEN CAPITALISM IS A DEAD END
- CHAPTER 6: GREEN GLOOM, BUSTED BOOM, BARBAROUS DOOM: WHAT'S LEFT?
- CHAPTER 7: COMMON CAUSE: EQUALITY, ECOLOGY, RE-CONSTRUCTION
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781800438248
- 1-80043-824-9
- OCLC:
- 1231609561
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