Green Gone Wrong: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Eco-Capitalism

Faced with climate change, many counsel "going green," encouraging us to buy organic food or a "clean" car, for example. But can we rely on consumerism to provide a solution to the very problems it has helped cause? Heather Rogers travels from Paraguay to Indonesia, via the Hudson Valley, Detroit, and Germany's Black Forest, to investigate green capitalism, and argues for solutions that are not mere palliatives or distractions, but ways of engaging with how we live and the kind of world we want to live in.

A new afterword considers various ways in which national development might be freed from its dependence on economic growth, allowing for a decent standard of living without exhausting the planet's resources.

Author: Heather Rogers
Publisher: Verso
Published: 01/16/2013
Pages: 288
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d
ISBN13: 9781844679010
ISBN10: 1844679012
BISAC Categories:
- Business & Economics | Environmental Economics
- Political Science | Public Policy | Environmental Policy
- Nature | Environmental Conservation & Protection | General

About the Author
Heather Rogers is a senior staff reporter at Remapping Debate. She has written for publications including the New York Times Magazine, Mother Jones, and the Nation. Her previous book is Gone Tomorrow: The Hidden Life of Garbage. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.