Global capitalism and climate change
Subtitle: the need for an alternative world system
By: Hans A. Baer
Series: Globalization and the environment series
Publisher: AltaMira Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780759121324; 9780759121348
Subjects: Globalization; Climatic changes; Economic aspects; Sustainable development
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies; title: The capitalist world system and its contradictions; title: The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions; title: The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change; title: Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change; title: A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability; title: Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms; title: Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally; title: Conclusion.