COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World Confronting Cascading Crises in the Age of Consequences
Book contents
- COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World
- Reviews
- COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Portrait of a Grief
- 2 Collapsing Dominoes
- 3 Vulnerabilities Amplified
- 4 Walled World
- 5 Obscene Opulence
- 6 Climate Nationalism
- 7 Toggling the System
- 8 Decluttering Consumption
- 9 Confronting Neo-Liberalism
- 10 Ceasing Arrogance
- 11 Making Amends
- 12 Collective Solidarities
- 13 Decolonising from Within
- 14 Indigenous Epistemology
- 15 Communicating Risks
- 16 The Hubris of Control
- 17 Mobilising the 3.5 Per Cent
- Index
- References
9 - Confronting Neo-Liberalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 22 June 2023
Book contents
- COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World
- Reviews
- COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority World
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Portrait of a Grief
- 2 Collapsing Dominoes
- 3 Vulnerabilities Amplified
- 4 Walled World
- 5 Obscene Opulence
- 6 Climate Nationalism
- 7 Toggling the System
- 8 Decluttering Consumption
- 9 Confronting Neo-Liberalism
- 10 Ceasing Arrogance
- 11 Making Amends
- 12 Collective Solidarities
- 13 Decolonising from Within
- 14 Indigenous Epistemology
- 15 Communicating Risks
- 16 The Hubris of Control
- 17 Mobilising the 3.5 Per Cent
- Index
- References
Summary
We need an alternative economic system founded on the physical constraints of the living Earth rather than on economic abstractions. To confront the neo-liberal paradigm at its core, we must build a society in which individual sufficiency coexists with public luxury, rather than one based on the paradigm of infinite growth.
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- COVID and Climate Emergencies in the Majority WorldConfronting Cascading Crises in the Age of Consequences, pp. 84 - 92Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023
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