The Politics of Actually Existing Unsustainability: Human Flourishing in a Climate-Changed, Carbon Constrained World

by John Barry

Going against both the naive techno-optimism of 'greening business as usual' and a resurgent 'catastrophism' within green thinking and politics, The Politics of Unsustainability offers an analysis of the causes of unsustainability and diminished human flourishing. It makes a case for seeing that it is profound and deepening unsustainability and growing injustice that characterises the modern world, and that therefore the focus of green or other progressive...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199695393
• ISBN13: 9780199695393
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"