Global Capitalism and Climate Change - The Need for an Alternative World System

Now in its second edition, Global Capitalism and Climate Change situates anthropogenic climate change in the context of global capitalism as it stands today and explores the systemic changes necessary to create a more socially just, democratic, and environmentally sustainable world system.

List of contents

Chapter 1: The Impact of Climate Change on the Environment and Human Societies
Chapter 2: The Capitalist World System and its Contradictions
Chapter 3: The Capitalist Treadmill of Production and Consumption as a Generator of
Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Chapter 4: The Inadequacies of Existing Climate Regimes for Mitigating Climate Change
Chapter 5: Why Green Capitalism Is Insufficient to Mitigate Climate Change
Chapter 6: The Climate Movement: Internationally, Nationally, and Locally
Chapter 7: Visions of the Future: Dystopia, Reflexive Modernization, and Eco-Socialism
Chapter 8: Toward a Socio-Ecological Revolution: System-Challenging Transitional Reforms
Conclusion: Climate Change, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Need for Eco-Socialism

About the author

Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne.

Product details

• Authors: Hans A. Baer
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9781666901788
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-178-8
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: Environment and Society
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Nature: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Capitalism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Capitalism, Conservation of the environment, Economic systems & structures, Environmental policy & protocols