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What it means for global sustainability when environmentalism is dominated by the concerns of the affluent--eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation. Over the last fifty years, environmentalism has emerged as a clear counterforce to the environmental destruction caused by industrialization, colonialism, and globalization. Activists and policymakers have fought hard to make the earth a better place to live. But has the environmental movement actually brought about meaningful progress toward global sustainability? Signs of global "unsustainability" are everywhere, from decreasing biodiversity to scarcity of fresh water to steadily rising greenhouse gas emissions. Meanwhile, as Peter Dauvergne points out in this provocative book, the environmental movement is increasingly dominated by the environmentalism of the rich--diverted into eco-business, eco-consumption, wilderness preservation, energy efficiency, and recycling. While it's good that, for example, Barbie dolls' packaging no longer depletes Indonesian rainforest, and that Toyota Highlanders are available as hybrids, none of this gets at the source of the current sustainability crisis. More eco-products can just mea
Who reads Peter Dauvergne: Environmentalism of the rich The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2016, 218 pp, ISBN: 9780262034951?
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- Author
- SpringerLink (Online service);Wildermuth, Grace
- Publisher
- The MIT Press
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780262336222
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Economics, Political Science, Government & Politics
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