β Scribed by Cable, Sherry
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
Environmental policies fail in conspicuous and egregious ways to sustain the natural resource base and protect citizens from production-generated risky exposures. In her engaging study, Sustainable Failures, Sherry Cable asks, why does environmental policy seem to be a contributing cause rather than a partial solution to environmental problems?
Melding a biophysical science perspective of environmental processes with sociological insights into human behavior, Cable examines the people, policies, and issues of
petrochemical dependence and broader environment questions. She insists that our present policies around the manufacture and use of petroleum products violate rudimentary ecological principlesβand do so in complicated ways.
Sustainable Failures is a blistering wake-up call to what is at stake not only regarding the failure of policy outcomes and grievous natural resource depletion and pollution, but also concerning democracy and ecological survival, and eventually, potentially, the existence of our species.
Contents
Preface
Part I - Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy
1. The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy
2. Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies
3. The Poisoning of the Biosphere: Th e Petro-dependent Modeof Subsistence
Part II - The United States:Prototype Petro-dependent Society
4. Petro-dependent Environmental Policies
5. Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution
6. Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens
7. Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices
8. Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural Reflections
Part III - Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire
9. International Environmental Policymaking
10. Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change
11. Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate State
Part IV - And So . . .
12. Once There Was a Planet in the Milky Way Galaxy . . .
Appendix - Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities
References
Index
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