Extreme Sustainability Rhetoric and Sustainable Development [Paperback]

This book considers the nature, causes and consequences of extreme pro- and anti-sustainability rhetoric, exploring how and why the expressions of radical views on sustainability-related themes may prevent real sustainable development.

Table of Contents

PART I. THE NATURE OF EXTREME SUSTAINABILITY RHETORIC *

1. Sustainability Rhetoric *

Abstract *

Introduction *

Rhetoric *

Sustainability Rhetoric *

The Sustainability Part of Sustainability Rhetoric: Lessons from Management Literature *

The Sustainability Cause *

Pro-sustainability Rhetoric *

Anti-Sustainability Rhetoric *

Reference list *

2. Sustainability and Dialogue *

Abstract *

Introduction *

Small Talk, Apocalypse, and Other Forms of Environmental Dialogue *

Impossible Dialogues *

Reference list *

3. Right Thinking, Left Thinking *

Abstract *

Philosophical, Political, and Economic Traditions *

The Problem with Ideologies *

Dissemination of Right and Left Ideas *

Resentment as Lefts Origins *

Selfishness as Rights Origins *

Personal Effort *

Risk Taking *

Corruption of Free Market Mechanisms *

Reference list *

4. The Sustainability Spectrum *

Abstract *

Spectrums *

The Political-economic Spectrum *

The Carnivorous Left (Extreme Left) *

Trotskyism *

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