Crimes against nature : capitalism and global heating / Jeff Sparrow.
Publication details: Brunswick, Victoria : Scribe Publications, 2021.Description: vii, 232 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 9781922310705 (paperback)
- Nature -- Effect of human beings on
- Capitalism -- Environmental aspects
- Climatic changes
- Climatic changes -- Political aspects
- Capitalism
- Global warming
- Climate change mitigation
- Environmental economics
- Environmental policy -- Economic aspects
- Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
- Social responsibility of business
- Capitalism
- Capitalism -- Environmental aspects
- Climate change mitigation
- Climatic changes
- Climatic changes -- Economic aspects
- Climatic changes -- Political aspects
- Environmental economics
- Environmental policy -- Economic aspects
- Global warming
- Social responsibility of business
- Global environmental change -- Economic aspects
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
A polemic about global warming and the environmental crisis, which argues that ordinary people have consistently opposed the destruction of nature and so provide an untapped constituency for climate action. Crimes Against Nature uses fresh material to offer a very different take on the most important issue of our times. It takes the familiar narrative about global warming - the one in which we are all to blame - and inverts it, to show how, again and again, pollution and ecological devastation have been imposed on the population without our consent and (often) against our will. From histories of destruction, it distils stories of hope, highlighting the repeated yearning for a more sustainable world. In the era of climate strikes, viral outbreaks, and Extinction Rebellion, Crimes Against Nature moves from ancient Australia to the 'corpse economy' of Georgian Britain to the 'Kitchen Debate' of the Cold War, to present an unexpected and optimistic environmental history - one that identifies ordinary people not as a collective problem but as a powerful force for change.