ABSTRACT

This book shows how we can solve the climate change crisis, which is the greatest threat humanity has faced. Charles Derber, a prominent sociologist and political economist, shows that global warming is a symptom of deep pathologies in global capitalism. In conversational and passionate writing, Derber shows that climate change is capitalism's time bomb, certain to explode unless we rapidly transform our economy and create a new green American Dream Derber shows there is hope in the financial meltdown and Great Recession we are now suffering. The economic crisis has raised deep questions about Wall Street and the US capitalist model. Derber systematically explores the causal links between capitalism and climate change, a taboo subject in the U.S, and opens up new thinking to solve both the economic and climate crises.

chapter |11 pages

Introduction

Capitalism's Time Bomb and the Fierce Urgency of Now

part |75 pages

Truth and Denial

chapter |10 pages

Brain and Belly

Scientific, Popular, and Gut Truths

chapter |10 pages

Scientists United

The Climatic Consensus

chapter |13 pages

The X-Rated Truth

Tipping Points and Points of No Return

chapter |8 pages

The New Greening of America

Truth and Truth Gaps in an Awakening Public

chapter |11 pages

The New Denial of Death

The Psychology of Pale Green

chapter |8 pages

Boomers and Millennials

Generational Truth and Denial

chapter |14 pages

The Denial Regime

Exxon, the GOP, and the Official Doubting Thomases

part |72 pages

How to Green America

chapter |15 pages

Good Timing

Economic Meltdown and Regime Change at Home

chapter |11 pages

Blind Markets

How Capitalism Creates Climate Change

chapter |19 pages

The 90 Percent Solution

How to Change Wall Street, Energy Firms, and the Corporate System

chapter |13 pages

The Green American Dream

Living More with Less

chapter |13 pages

Through and after Depression

How Long-Term Climate Change Solutions Are the Best Medicine for Our Four Other Biggest Short-Term Crises

part |27 pages

Green Globalization

chapter |10 pages

The West and the Rest: One

Why It Takes a Global Village to Cool the World

chapter |16 pages

The West and the Rest: Two

Green Globalization and a Global New Deal

part |42 pages

When the Grass Roots Grow Green

chapter |11 pages

And Along Came Obama

Yes, We Can!

chapter |16 pages

Blessed Unrest Revisited

Existential Threats and the Reinvention of Social Movements

chapter |14 pages

Making a Life and Making History

From Bowling Alone to Bowling Green