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Bezig met laden... The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of… (editie 2012)door Paul Gilding
WerkdetailsThe Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World door Paul Gilding
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 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. (  ) pheinrich | Jul 18, 2020 |  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. (  ) Razinha | May 23, 2017 | 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. (  ) vlermeisie | Nov 17, 2016 | Gilding is the latest in a long line of doomsayers: Chicken Little, Malthus, The Club of Rome, Paul Ehrlich, IPCC, .... It is unlikely his thesis will be the first proven correct. GWSJr | Mar 3, 2012 | Since the consequences of not cutting growth and addressing climate change are so bad then, he reasons, we will over come them by just such and effort that England and the US undertook in WWII. I am skeptical. Much has been made of England's undertaking, but what of Germany and Japan? ( ) jefware | Oct 2, 2011 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
According to the author, the 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. The author claims 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 resources. He sees the predicted crisis as a rare chance to replace our addiction to growth with an ethic of sustainability in which we will measure "growth" not by quantity of stuff but by quality and happiness of life. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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