Greed to Green Solving Climate Change and Remaking the Economy [Paperback]

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.Charles Derbers urgent call to action on climate change connects to realistically upbeat ways to help resolve our energy, peace, and employment challenges. To read this book is to react with personal and social action.
Ralph Nader

There's no way to solve climate change without also shifting, in profound ways, our idea of what constitutes success and growth and progress. This is the right book at the rightand crucialmoment.
Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and creator of the student-based Step It Up campaign to cut carbon emissions and of 350.org, today's leading climate change movement

As this wonderfully inspiring book makes clear, the failure of the United States to achieve energy independence, eliminate potential oil wars, and truly address issues of social justice is a consequence of our corporate-dominated economy. Greed to Green brings home the fact that a people's movement to green the economy depends on creating a political system which subordinates the interests of big business to those of its citizensand to the natural environment which sustains us all.
Ross Gelbspan, Pulitzls: