The great disruption
Subtitle: how the climate crisis will change everything (for the better)
By: Paul Gilding
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9781608192236
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Time to get ready; title: An economic and social hurricane; title: The scream : we are their children's children; title: A very big problem; title: Beyond the limits : the great disruption; title: Addicted to growth; title: Global foreshock : the year that growth stopped; title: The road ahead : our planetary sat nav; title: Are we finished?; title: When the dam of denial breaks; title: The one degree war; title: How an Austrian economist could save the world; title: Creative destruction on steroids : out with the old, in with the new; title: Shifting sands : from Middle Eastern oil to Chinese sun; title: The elephant in the room : growth doesn't work; title: The happiness economy; title: Yes, there is life after shopping; title: No, the poor will not always be with us; title: Ineffective inequality; title: The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet; title: Guess who's in charge?