Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet [Audiobook] download free by Kerryn Higgs
- Listen audiobook: Collision Course: Endless Growth on a Finite Planet
- Author: Kerryn Higgs
- Release date: 2014/6/5
- Publisher: MIT PRESS LTD
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Business, Finance and Law
- ISBN: 9780262027731
- Rating: 8.74 of 10
- Votes: 105
- Review by: Aileen Holm
- Review rating: 8.86 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/23
- Duration: 5H17M6S in 256 kbps (83.2 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-09-15
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: FLAC, MP3, WAV, MPEG4, WMA, Musepack, AC3, WMA Lossless (compression ZIP, TAR, TAR.XZ, TAR.BZ2, TZO, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 416
- Includes a PDF summary of 42 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 31M49S (8.4 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: The story behind the reckless promotion of economic growth despite its disastrous consequences for life on the planet.The notion of ever-expanding economic growth has been promoted so relentlessly that 'growth' is now entrenched as the natural objective of collective human effort. The public has been convinced that growth is the natural solution to virtually all social problems-poverty, debt, unemployment, and even the environmental degradation caused by the determined pursuit of growth. Meanwhile, warnings by scientists that we live on a finite planet that cannot sustain infinite economic expansion are ignored or even scorned. In Collision Course, Kerryn Higgs examines how society's commitment to growth has marginalized scientific findings on the limits of growth, casting them as bogus predictions of imminent doom.Higgs tells how in 1972, The Limits to Growth-written by MIT researchers Donella Meadows, Dennis Meadows, Jorgen Randers, and William Behrens III-found that unimpeded economic growth was likely to collide with the realities of a finite planet within a century. Although the book's arguments received positive responses initially, before long the dominant narrative of growth as panacea took over. Higgs explores the resistance to ideas about limits, tracing the propagandizing of 'free enterprise,' the elevation of growth as the central objective of policy makers, the celebration of 'the magic of the market,' and the ever-widening influence of corporate-funded think tanks-a parallel academic universe dedicated to the dissemination of neoliberal principles and to the denial of health and environmental dangers from the effects of tobacco to global warming. More than forty years after The Limits to Growth, the idea that growth is essential continues to hold sway, despite the mounting evidence of its costs-climate destabilization, pollution, intensification of gross global inequalities, and depletion of the resources on which the modern economic edifice depends.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Economic Growth, Economics, Environmental Economics, Environmental Science, Engineering & Technology, Central Government Policies, Social Impact Of Environmental Issues
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 38.29 USD
- Dimensions: 152x229x30mm
- Weight: 689.46g
- Printed by: MIT Press
- Published in: Cambridge, Mass., United States
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