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Title: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
ISBN: 0300136110
Author:
James Gustave Speth
Publicate Date: 2008-03-28
Publish: 2008-03-28
List Price: $28.00
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: The Bridge at the Edge of the World
The ideas presented are excellent, logical, and thought provoking!!!
The book was sometimes hard for me to follow due to less than complete information. It is dull at times. The author is no Thomas Friedman.
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2: Essential Reading for Essential Action
The Bridge at the End of the World A highly readable, fact-filled, and convincing exposition of how market-profit-growth based corporate economy is destroying the eco-system on which it depends and what must and can be done to change it. There's little time before the damage is irreversible.
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3: The Bridge at the End of the World
Bridge End World A superb book that covers areas not addressed by other similar books.The author has vast experience in the subject area.Speth is aware of the magnitude of the problem but is persuaded it can be resolved.A good read ! John Cairns,Jr.
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4: A bridge too far...or still within reach?
As do other current writers such as Thomas Homer-Dixon and David Korten, James Speth sees us heading for catastrophe in the way we're over-using and over-polluting the earth, but holds out hope that we may yet turn back from the brink of destruction. He attributes our predicament to an economic system based on little more than constant growth, which in turns requires ever more extraction from the earth; weak or nonexistent government leadership; and an environmental movement that has been less "movement" and more an insider operation that down deep believes a) the government can and will eventually do the right thing and b) there won't be need for drastic redirection of our economic and political systems or serious change in our way of living.
Speth calls for a rediscovery of the true meaning of life (relationships, service, enjoyment of leisure, etc.)--and orienting our economic pursuits around this; a new form of participatory democracy that takes back our country from the corporate-led government we currently "enjoy"; ending over $850 billion in annual global subsidies for "perverse" practices such as overfishing the seas; developing an economic model that incorporates environmental care, human rights and worker well-being at its core; and international treaties with "teeth" to enforce environmental protection of critical habitats and endangered species and ecosystems.
This is a depressing book in that it clearly lays out the challenges facing us; it is hopeful in that it does provide a "bridge" to get us from this world to the next. It's up to us to build it and then be ready to walk over it.
Telling quote: "When the crisis occurs, the actions taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, and to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable."
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5: The Bridge at the Edge of the World YOUTUBE VIDEO
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R227HOY1RAP1LO This is a quick introduction to the book. The video is on YouTube at [...]. Enjoy!
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