Research Catalog

Title

Creating an ecological society : toward a revolutionary transformation / by Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams.

Author

Magdoff, Fred, 1942-

Publication

New York : Monthly Review Press, [2017]

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Additional Authors

Williams, Chris, 1966-

Description

387 pages : illustrations; 22 cm

Summary

Aiming squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Magdoff and Williams provide accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old. They show that it is possible to envision and create a society that is genuinely democratic, equitable, and ecologically sustainable. And possible--not one moment too soon--for society to change fundamentally and be brought into harmony with nature. --From publisher description.

Subject

• Social ecology
• Human ecology
• Social ecology
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Communism, Post-Communism & Socialism
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / John Bellamy Foster -- Part One: Why an alternative is essential -- The social and ecological planetary emergency -- The root of the social-ecological crisis -- Capitalism versus the biosphere -- Capitalism's effects on people -- Part Two: Is an ecological society possible? -- Humans as part of nature -- Does "human nature" prevent system change? -- Equality as biological fact -- Part Three: Learning from nature -- The biosphere: Cycles of life -- Developing resilient social-ecological systems -- Ecological approaches to fulfilling human needs -- Part Four: Toward a new society -- Living in an ecological society -- Revolution: Creating an ecological society.

ISBN

• 9781583676295
• 1583676295
• 9781583676301
• 1583676309

LCCN

^^2017014042

OCLC

945947619

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library