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Crimes against nature : capitalism and global heating / Jeff Sparrow.

Crimes against nature : capitalism and global heating / Jeff Sparrow.
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ISBN 9781922310705 (paperback)
Author Sparrow, Jeff, 1969- (author)
Title Crimes against nature : capitalism and global heating / Jeff Sparrow.
Publisher and/or associated date/s Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021.
Description vii, 232 pages ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary A 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.
Subjects Nature -- Effect of human beings on
Capitalism
Environmental economics
Environmental policy -- Economic aspects
Social responsibility of business
Climate change mitigation
Climatic changes
Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
Climatic changes -- Political aspects
Global warming
Global environmental change
Social responsibility of business
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