The Constant Economy : How to Create a Stable Society - Hardcover

Goldsmith, Zac

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1848870671 ISBN 13: 9781848870673

Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2009

Inhaltsangabe

The earth's resources are finite, climate change threatens to dramatically transform how and where we live, and the global economic system is in disarray. One way or another we have to change. In this brilliant and timely book Zac Goldsmith argues here for the creation of what he calls 'a constant economy'. Since the industrial revolution, our economies have grown at the expense of the natural world. We can deny the need for change, in which case we will be at the mercy of events and the adjustments will be harsh. Or, as this book shows, there is an alternative. A 'constant economy' is one in which resources are valued not wasted, where food is grown sustainably and goods are built to last. It is a system whose energy security is based on the use of renewable sources, and communities are valued as a country's strongest hedge against social, economic and environmental instability. The constant economy operates at the human scale, and above all it recognizes nature's limits. Zac Goldsmith's landmark book will explain and inspire. He shows that almost everything that needs be done to support the environment is already being done somewhere in the world. And where companies, communities and even governments have blazed a trail, they have not only done the right thing, their customers - and their voters - have rewarded them for doing the right thing. Solutions exist, they work, and they are laid out in this ground-breaking book.

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Zac Goldsmith joined the Ecologist magazine in 1997 and became Editor. He launched campaigns on, among other things, climate change, GM food and pesticides. He has helped establish a number of foundations that raise funds for cutting edge environmental organisations.In 2004 Zac received Mikhail Gorbachev's Global Green Award for International Environmental Leadership. A year later, he was invited to oversee the Conservative Party's Quality of Life Policy Group, responsible for rethinking issues ranging from transport and housing to food and farming, biodiversity and the countryside and energy policy. He is now the the Conservative Party's Prospective Parliamentary Candidate for Richmond Park and North Kingston in London. Zac Goldsmith is 33 and is married with three children.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Atlantic Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1848870671
• ISBN 13: 9781848870673
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200
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