Author : Mark Diesendorf
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9789819906628
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (66 download)
Book Synopsis The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation by : Mark Diesendorf
Download or read book The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation written by Mark Diesendorf and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 2023-05-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Path to a Sustainable Civilisation shows that we have unwittingly fallen into an existential crisis of our own making. We have allowed large corporations, the military and other vested interests to capture governments and influence public opinion excessively. We have created a god called ‘the market’ and allowed our most important decisions to be made by this imaginary entity, which is in fact a human system controlled by vested interests. The result has been the exploitation of our life support system, our planet, and most of its inhabitants, to the point of collapse. This book argues that the way out of our black hole is to build social movements to apply overwhelming pressure on government and big business, weaken the power of vested interests and strengthen democratic decision-making. This must be done simultaneously with action on the specific issues of climate, energy, natural resources and social justice, in order to transition to a truly sustainable civilisation.