Crimes against nature : capitalism and global heating
Sparrow, Jeff, 1969-2021
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Click and Collect for Crimes against nature : capitalism and global heatingA polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming - the one in which we are all to blame - and inverts it, to show how, again and again, pollution and ecological devastation have been imposed on the population without our consent and (often) against our will. From histories of destruction, it distils stories of hope, highlighting the repeated yearning for a more sustainable world. In the era of climate strikes, viral outbreaks, and Extinction Rebellion, Crimes Against Nature moves from ancient Australia to the 'corpse economy' of Georgian Britain to the 'Kitchen Debate' of the Cold War, to present an unexpected and optimistic environmental history - one that identifies ordinary people not as a collective problem but as a powerful force for change.
Crimes against nature : capitalism and global heating / Jeff Sparrow.
Sparrow, Jeff, 1969-, author
Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021.©2021
vii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
97819223107059781922310705
363.73874363.738
English
Climatic changesClimatic changes -- Political aspectsCapitalismCapitalism -- Environmental aspectsGlobal warmingClimate change mitigationEnvironmental economicsEnvironmental policy -- Economic aspectsClimatic changes -- Economic aspectsGlobal environmental change -- Economic aspectsSocial responsibility of businessNature -- Effect of human beings on
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Beaumaris Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 363.738 SPA | Available |
Brighton Library | Adult Non Fiction - Environment | 363.738 SPA | Available |
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