Unsustainable: A Primer for Global Environmental and Social Justice by Patrick Hossay
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- Pub. Date: March 2006
- 292pp
- Sales Rank: 485,646
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- Pub. Date: March 2006
- Publisher: Zed Books
- Format: Paperback, 292pp
- Sales Rank: 485,646
- ISBN-13: 9781842776575
- ISBN: 1842776576
Synopsis
Aimed at an audience, including both budding social activists and young people studying the environment and international development, this book explains how these crises share the same historical roots. Brilliantly combining a huge amount of up-to-date information, visual charts, and clear explanation, Patrick Hossay shows how an historical path of colonialism, capitalist development and industrial growth has yielded bad results. He proposes a fundamental restructuring of the way business is done, and the book suggests ways in which we can work for lasting change.
Biography
Patrick Hossay is a political scientist who teaches international development and environmental politics at the Richard Stockton College of New Jersey.
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Unsustainable: A Primer for Global Environmental and Social Justiceby Anonymous
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September 05, 2007: There have been many authors put the issues of global environmental on their books, but few of them can clearly explain the issues in the context of international development. Patrick Hossay?s book titled Unsustainable : A Primer for Global Environmental and Social Justice shows how the global development has become unsustainable because of the continuing environmental degradation. The worst thing, as Hossay writes, the extent of the destruction caused by the irreversible development practiced by the affluent countries with their paradigm of neo-liberalism. The damage is very severe so that Hossay urges the affluent countries, especially the US, to take a lead in preventing our the only earth from the massive destruction. He clearly explains the strong connections between global environmental crisis, and social and economic inequality. Also, he gives many examples to convince his arguments that people?s lives in this earth are in the trouble because of the severe ecological destruction. For instances, the global warming caused by some pollutants such as hydrofluorocarbons and methane, has created the rise of the temperature in the next century from 1,5 to 6 degrees Centigrade 'p. 6'. Because of the climate changing, some small countries in the Pacific Ocean will disappear soon if we do nothing. The current development has made our the only earth destroyed. Also, human and natural resources are exploited. He is quite detail in showing how the industrial growth has resulted in a global catastrophe. Also, he is quite successful in approaching the international development from the aspect of environmental values and also from the historical perspective. In this case, he believes that the destruction of our natural systems roots from the past experience starting from the industrial revolution. Hossay has been successful make a difference through his book. He does not only write about the environmental destruction but also the environmental values which has been destroyed by the irreversible development. Hossay is successful in convincing us that current development is not sustainable because it has lead human suffering. There have been many setback caused by the development. Furthermore, his book has aroused the critical thinking of the idea of development. Most of us might consider the development is a good action to create equality and to give better life for all human beings. However, in the fact, as Hossay writes, the development has result in the setback of the quality of our life. The worst thing the damage is irreversible and because of this, as Hossay writes, we have already lost too much. He wants to make the readers aware about the irreversible damage because most of us have undervalued the concept of irreversibility. Therefore, the solution to cure our unhealthy earth has not been successful. The paradigm of neo-liberalism used in the development practice today has become problem because it has put our natural system into the massive. For example, the global trade, as Hossay writes, has inherent environmental cost. He writes ?trade involves expanded shipping of goods over longer distances and this means more use of fossil fuels and more pollution for each item that is made? 'p.79'. Any effort that tried to expose the link between environmental threats and the global economic system were shot down. Particularly the US and Europe has precluded any proposal that sought to limit continued expansion of the...
Unsustainable: A Primer for Global Environmental and Social Justiceby Anonymous
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May 01, 2006: This book was a text in my class and it really was the best class book I've ever had. Hossay's great, he writes in clear, straightforward terms, no BS. It's not like a textbook at all, it's like having someone explain to you, in careful and documented terms, the urgent situation we all face. I will live my life differently because of this book.
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