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Global capitalism and climate change the need for an alternative world system / by Baer, Hans A., 1944-

Table of Contents: “…The impact of climate change on the environment and human societies -- The capitalist world system and its contradictions -- The capitalist treadmill of production and consumption as a generator of greenhouse gas emissions -- The inadequacies of existing climate regimes for mitigating climate change -- Why green capitalism is insufficient to mitigate climate change -- A vision of an alternative world system : toward global democracy based on social justice and environmental sustainability -- Toward an ecological revolution : progressive transitional reforms -- Grass-roots responses to the climate change : internationally, nationally, and locally -- Conclusion.…”
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Climate Crisis, The : South African and Global Democratic Eco-Socialist Alternatives /

Table of Contents: “…The climate crisis and systemic alternatives -- The limits of capitalist solutions to the climate crisis -- The anthropocene and imerpeial ecocide -- The employment crisis, just transition and the universal basic income grant -- The rights of Mother Earth -- Buen Vivir: an alternative perspective from the peoples of the global south to the crisis of capitalist modernity -- Challenging the growth paradigm: Marx, Buddha and the pursuit of "happiness" -- Ubuntu and the struggle for an African eco-socialist alternative -- The climate crisis and the struggle for African food sovereignty -- The climate crisis and a "just transition" in South Africa -- Energy, labour and democracy in South Africa -- Capital, climate and the politics of nuclear procurement in South Africa -- Climate jobs at two minutes to midnight -- Deepening the just transition through food sovereignty and the solidarity economy -- Eco-capitalist crises in the "Blue Economy"…”
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