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The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and SustainabilityEllwood, Wayne Publisher: New Internationalist, Oxford, United KingdomDate Written: 01/04/2013 Year Published: 2014 First Published: 2013 Pages: 192pp ISBN: 978-1-78026-123-2 Library of Congress Number: HD78.E46 2014 Dewey: 338.9 Resource Type: Book Cx Number: CX16256 This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful. Abstract: The worlds addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by progressives as the only possible solution for our economic and social woes. This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful. And then it goes beyond that to present the alternative how we can kick our dirty habit, how degrowth can be turned into a positive and how we can arrive at a new levels of environmental sustainability without having to turn the clock back to the Dark Ages. [From publisher] Table of Contents Introduction 1. The growth machine 2. Sources, sinks and services 3. Peak oil and tar sands 4. Climate change and carbon footprints 5. Profits, debt and the growth imperative 6. Measuring what counts: GDP and happiness 7. Life on the treadmill: buying, selling, working 8. On the road to degrowth Contacts and resources Index Subject Headings |