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Self-Devouring Growth

By Julie Livingston

Self-Devouring Growth

By Julie Livingston

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Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective well-being. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth, we may be unknowingly consuming our future.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
176
Release Date:
2019-09-20
Publication Date:
2019-09-20
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1478006390
ISBN13:
9781478006398
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
259 g
Height:
133 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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