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How the Rich are Destroying the Earth (Paperback)

by Herve Kempf (Author)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Green Books (6 Nov 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1900322412
  • ISBN-13: 978-1900322416
  • Product Dimensions: 20.8 x 13.6 x 1.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 146,603 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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A fact-filled, concise, hard-hitting, highly rational, and much needed analysis of the crises we face, and of the need to both reduce and redistribute global material consumption. --John Perkins, bestselling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Manand

Speaks seldom-heard truths about economic growth, environmental destruction, poverty, and equity that hold the key to human survival and well-being. An important book. --David Korten, author of The Great Turning:From Empire to Earth Community and When Corporations Rule the World

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A best-seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Herve Kempf's "How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth" now appears in its first English edition. In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the following observations: First, that the planet's ecological situation is growing ever worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second, despite environmentalists' emphasis that 'we're all in the same boat', the world's economic elites - who continue to benefit by plundering the environment - have access to 'lifeboats' that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes. Societies have not been able to effectively combat the expanding ecological crisis because it is intimately linked to the social crisis in which the ruling form of capitalism has been organized to impede democratic initiatives.This link explains the failure to make progress against the greatest emergency of our time, because in this relationship the oligarchy plays an essential and destructive role. For this reason, solving the ecological crisis depends on disrupting the power of the world's elite. We cannot understand the entwined ecological and social crises, Kempf argues, if we don't see them as the two sides of the same disaster - a disaster that comes from a system piloted by a dominant social strata that has no drive other than greed, no ideal other than conservatism, no dream other than technology. But Kempf also calls for measured optimism: 'Despite the scale of the challenges that await us, solutions are emerging and - faced with the sinister prospects the oligarchs promote - the desire to remake the world is being reborn'.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Useful study of capitalist mayhem, 27 May 2009
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Hervé Kempf is Le Monde's environmental editor. In his foreword, US journalist Greg Palast reminds us that the great green guru Al Gore pushed through the North American Free Trade Agreement and ran Clinton's crusade against safety and environmental rules.

Kempf shows us what a disaster the present world order is. The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation notes that 925 million people are undernourished, and two billion suffer food shortages. One billion people live in slums. Capitalism misuses our resources across the world.

He notes, "the global oligarchy wants to get rid of democracy and the civil rights and public liberties that constitute its substance." So now states criminalise protest, constantly watch us all, extend police powers and normalise torture. We live in a permanent state of emergency. As he sums up, `Capitalism no longer needs democracy'; it was just a useful cover during the Cold War.

He points out that the media express the views and interests of the ruling class. For example, the French media during the campaign on the EU Constitution insulted opponents of the proposed Constitution - that is, the majority of the French people - as xenophobes and fascists.

He also denounces the absurd idea that capitalism's `invisible hand' will bring peace and wealth for us all, as in some modern cargo cult.
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