A democracy built to last, Green/Populist steps toward a livable future, Robert Beattie
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A democracy built to last, Green/Populist steps toward a livable future, Robert Beattie
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 308-318) and index
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
A democracy built to last
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bibliography
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64594436
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Robert Beattie
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Green/Populist steps toward a livable future
Summary
A Democracy Built To Last is a rare challenge to what has become a dogma in American economic and political thinking: economic growth as the goal of public policy. In reality it is unlimited economic growth in a finite world that is the cause of spreading disruption of the earth's natural balances and depletion of its resources. The author argues that our growth trends are not only unsustainable, they may not be survivable, but that we do have promising, sustainable alternatives. Includes information on antibiotics, automobiles, George W. Bush, cancer, carbon dioxide, carbon tax, China, climate, Bill Clinton, Democratic Party, dust bowl, energy, Environmental Protection Agency, forests, fossil fuels, global warming, greenhouse effect, heart disease, Japan, labor unions, life expectancy, lobbying, nuclear energy, oil, pesticides, productivity, Ronald Reagan, Republican Party, soil, weeds, etc
Table Of Contents
Life on Earth at the end of the industrial age -- Environmental values, environmental politics -- Rising wealth, declining democracy -- Energy for a sustainable economy -- Junking the deathmobile -- Farms built to last -- Sustaining health -- Education for survival -- A political postscript
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