ISBN:
9781478005087
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9781478006398
Language:
English
Pages:
xiii, 160 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Livingston, Julie, 1966 - Self-devouring growth
DDC:
388.96883
Keywords:
Economic development Environmental aspects
;
Consumption (Economics) Environmental aspects
Abstract:
A planetary parable -- Rainmaking and other forgotten things -- In the time of beef. Cattle to beef: a photo essay of abstraction -- Roads, sand, and the motorized cow -- Power and possibility, or did you know AESOP was once a slave?.
Abstract:
"Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective wellbeing. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth we may be unknowingly consuming our future"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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