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Book reviews tagged with ‘economy’
Pamela Blais’ first book targets the (all too) well-known phenomenon of urban sprawl – the low-grade fabric of cookie-cutter subdivisions, big-box power centres, remote office parks and tawdry commercial strips – none of which can be accessed without a car. Sprawl, Blais points out, is an extremely inefficient way of building communities. It sucks up enormous quantities of non-renewable resources (such as energy, land, building materials and water) and spits out a stream of wastes (greenhouse gases, air pollutants, garbage) that choke the planet’s survival systems.
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Leonard, a self-described “systems thinker,” aims to debunk the entrenched “growth at all costs” model. She does so by discussing the materials economy and its underlying paradigm of economic growth, but opts to not lay the blame with individuals or inspire feelings of guilt. … Readers, however, should not be misled by her bubbly prose: Leonard gets to the heart of serious subjects and exposes the inter-connectedness of today’s consumption, environmental, social and economic crises.
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For McKibben, there are three fundamental challenges to Western society’s fixation on growth, which taken together deal an absolute knockout blow to Adam Smith’s claim to fame. First, there is the political argument concerning the glaring economic inequalities that are inherent in capitalism’s dark side.
