Reva Blau, Judith Blau

Climate Chaos and its Origins in Slavery and Capitalism

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Climate Chaos argues powerfully that unless global citizens come together to change the infrastructure and value system of capitalist greed and consumption, human society will not survive past this century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anthem Press
• Seitenzahl: 114
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 287g
• ISBN-13: 9781785275272
• ISBN-10: 1785275275
• Artikelnr.: 59641399

Autorenporträt

Reva Blau is a writer and middle-school ELL teacher. She leads professional development that teaches empowerment along lines of race, gender, and class that is grounded in restorative practice. Judith Blau is professor emerita of sociology at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, where she chaired the social and economic justice undergraduate minor for many years. She was founder and director of the Human Rights Center of Chapel Hill-Carrboro.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Background: Early Signs of Warming into the Present
2. Extraction: Slavery and Capitalism
3. Are We Helpless? Or Empowered?
4. What Replaces Capitalism? The Circular Economy? Blockchain?
5. Geoengineering
6. Hands off Mother Earth
7. The Millennium Development Goals, the Sustainable Development Goals, and the Paris Agreement
8. The SDGs and COVID-19
9. Turning the Page
10. Conclusions: To End Capitalism
Glossary: Terms Relevant for (1) Global Warming, and (2) COVID-19
Index.