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Stop saving the planet! : an environmentalist manifesto / Jenny Price.

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"A short, fun, fierce manifesto for a fairer, more effective environmentalism (with a lot less shopping!). We've been "saving the planet!" for decades now, and the crises have only gotten worse. Many of us-environmentalists included-continue to live deeply unsustainable lives. At home, affluent Americans "buy green"; while at work, they maximize profits with dirty energy and toxic industries that are poisoning our poorer communities. With brevity, humor, and plenty of attitude, Jenny Price tracks "save the planet!" enthusiasm through strategies that range from ridiculously ineffective (Prius-buying and carbon trading) to flat-out counterproductive (greenwashing, and public subsidies to greenwash). We need to imagine far better ways to use and inhabit environments. Why aren't we cleaning up the messes we've already made? And why do so many people hate environmentalists? Price offers trailblazing answers, along with powerful ideas for how to divest from self-destruction and invest in mutual survival"-- Provided by publisher.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780393540871
  • ISBN: 0393540871
  • Physical Description: 143 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : W. W. Norton & Company, [2021]

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Stop saving the planet! -- 1st reason: Environment is in here -- 2nd reason: Everyone hates environmentalists -- 3rd reason: I can't solve the Middle East crisis by myself -- 4th reason: Are you really trying to save energy by using more energy more efficiently? -- 5th reason: Greenwashing works -- 6th reason: Everyone hates environmentalists (Add it up) -- 7th reason: Can you see any people on the blue marble? (Just add whole planetude) -- 8th reason: Greenwashing works, redux -- 9th reason: You wouldn't create public markets to trade in cancers, birth defects, and deaths -- 10th reason: Everyone hates environmentalists (Now add whole planetude) -- 11th reason: You can't tackle how we are all in this together unless you tackle how we are not all in this together -- 39 ways to stop saving the planet: A stout but unexhaustive list of things that you can personally do.
Subject: Environmentalism.

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