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Bezig met laden... The great disruption : how the climate crisis will change everything (for the better) (editie 2011)door Paul Gilding
Informatie over het werkThe Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World door Paul Gilding
Climate Change (64) Bezig met laden...
Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Maybe the coronavirus will usher in the Great Disruption that Gilding forecast back in 2011. ( ) Toyed with just two stars on this. Nothing new...nothing earth-shattering...nothing that will convince anybody he's right, and his solutions are amateurishly obvious...therefore pretty much unlikely until ultimately forced. I get his passion, and his personal contribution. This book didn't capture me, though. Gilding could have said what he wanted to say in a few punchy chapters and spared us from a drawn-out, data poor, verbose read interspersed with cliches, corny humor and self-aggrandizement. His book lacks credibility and does little for the environmental cause he's so desperate to promote. Struggled to finish it. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our planet's ecosystems and sources.The Great Disruption offers a stark and unflinching look at the challenge humanity faces-yet also a deeply optimistic message. The coming decades will see loss, suffering, and conflict as our planetary overdraft is paid; however, they will also bring out the best humanity can offer: compassion, innovation, resilience, and adaptability. Gilding tells us how to fight-and in-what he calls the One Degree War to prevent catastrophic warming of the earth, and how to start today.The crisis represents a rare chance to replace our addiction to growth with an ethic of sustainability, and it's already happening. It's also an unmatched business opportunity: Old industries will collapse while new companies will literally reshape our economy. In the aftermath of the Great Disruption, we will measure "growth" in a new way. It will mean not quantity of stuff but quality and happiness of life. Yes, there is life after shopping. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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