Green Capitalism: Manufacturing Scarcity in an Age of Abundance - Softcover

Heartfield, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1906496102 ISBN 13: 9781906496104

Verlag: Mute, 2008

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A polemic against 'Green Capitalism'. James Heartfield accuses the 'Green Capitalists' of profiteering over climate change and other environmental scares. Green capitalists like Zac Goldsmith and Al Gore are manufacturing scarcity to boost prices. The technological revolution has removed scarcity from most of our lives, but the green capitalists are trying to re-invent it. Chapters on 1. The age of plenty, 2. The retreat from production, 3. The green capitalists, 4. Manufactured scarcity, 5. Green consumerism, 6. The economy of wasting time, 7. Green imperialism, 8. Environmental economics, 9. Green socialism?, 10. The unnatural limits to growth, plus an appendix, The revolution in technique. Bibliography and index. 136 pp. Author James Heartfield wrote Let's Build! Why we need five million new homes in the next 10 years (2006) The Creativity Gap (2005) The Death of the Subject Explained (2002). www.heartfield.org

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• Verlag: Mute
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1906496102
• ISBN 13: 9781906496104
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 136