Suchergebnisse

Introduction -- The impact of climate change in Australia -- Australian capitalism as a driver of climate change -- Climate politics at the top : the corporations and the two major parties -- Climate politics at the margins : the Greens, labour unions, environmental NGOs, and grass-roots climate movement -- Engaging with the Australian climate movement : an autoethnography of a climate justice activist -- Toward an eco-socialism Australia -- Australia's and eco-socialism in a global context.

"Now in its second edition, Global Capitalism and Climate Change situates anthropogenic climate change in the context of global capitalism as it stands today and explores the systemic changes necessary to create a more socially just, democratic, and environmentally sustainable world system."

Introduction -- 1. The political economy of motor vehicles -- 2. Cultural tropes associated with motor vehicles -- 3. The political ecological impact of motor vehicles on settlement patterns -- 4. The impact of motor vehicles on the natural environment -- 5. The political ecological impact of motor vehicles on health -- 6. Case studies of motor vehicles in various places -- 7. Beyond the automobile -- 8. Creating a sustainable transportation system within the context of an alternative world system -- References -- Index -- About the Author.

Introduction -- The contradictions of the capitalist world system at the beginning of the twentieth-first century -- 20th century attempts to create socialism: successes and failures -- Techno-liberal and counter-cultural visions of the future -- Efforts to re-conceptualize socialism -- The role of anti-systemic movements in creating a socio-ecological revolution -- Transitional systemic-challenge reforms -- Conclusion: the future in the balance