Environment, Capitalism & SocialismResistance Books, 1999 - 210 σελίδες "Our planet is gripped by twin crises of the most fundamental nature--social (mass poverty, austerity, militarism, etc) and environmental. In this document, the Democratic Socialist Party argues that they spring from the same cause--the capitalist system which places the ruthless pursuit of profit by the few before the needs of the vast majority of humanity. Environment, Capitalism and Socialism provides a comprehensive overview of the environmental crisis, the various explanations advanced for it and the responses to it. The document argues strongly for the need to build a mass popular movement to fight corporate planet wreckers and create a socialist order in which human beings will be in harmony with their environment. Included here as an appendix is editor Dick Nichols' thorough critique of so-called green taxation, often put forward as the answer to the crisis." -- Provided by publisher |
Περιεχόμενα
PREFACE by Dick Nichols | 7 |
THE THREAT TO HUMAN SURVIVAL | 21 |
SYMPTOMS AND CAUSES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS | 33 |
THE ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT | 71 |
CURRENTS IN ECOLOGICAL THOUGHT | 93 |
POLITICAL CONSEQUENCES OF THE ENVIRONMENTAL CRISIS | 107 |
TOWARDS AN ENVIRONMENTALLY SUSTAINABLE WORLD | 123 |
CAN GREEN TAXES SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT? | 134 |
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