Contents
Preface - ix
Acknowledgments - xviii
Introduction: Between Two Worlds - 1
Part One. System Failure
1. Looking into the Abyss - 17
2. Modern Capitalism: Out of Control - 46
3. The Limits of Today’s Environmentalism - 67
Part Two. The Great Transformation
4. The Market: Making It Work for the Environment - 89
5. Economic Growth: Moving to a Post-Growth Society - 107
6. Real Growth: Promoting the Well-Being of People and Nature - 126
7. Consumption: Living with Enough, Not Always More - 147
8. The Corporation: Changing the Fundamental Dynamics - 165
9. Capitalism’s Core: Advancing beyond Today’s Capitalism - 183
Part Three. Seedbeds of Transformation
10. A New Consciousness - 199
11. A New Politics - 217
12. The Bridge at the Edge of the World - 233
Notes - 239
Index - 281