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Examines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy

Trade Review
"Cable looks into why we have had powerful laws that regulate specific impacts on high profile issues while topics tangentially related to our dependence on a petroleum-based economy fall into the 'don't bother me now' category of our collective attention and action... In addition to being an able researcher, Cable is a gifted storyteller... she dedicates most of her work to a broad and deep 'what's wrong with this picture' description of where we are and how we got here... This book puts the blame for our mess right where it belongs - on us as a society." Sustainability, August 2012 "Cable offers a sweeping analysis of how humans live outside their means, fostering a false duality between society and biosphere with decidedly unsustainable technological and petroleum energy dependence... Written for a broad audience, the work deftly combines a jargon-free sociological lens on human behavior with biophysical science questions of sustainability. Recommended." - Choice

Table of 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: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence

PART Il 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 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

Sustainable Failures

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      Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
      Publication Date: 10/08/2012
      ISBN13: 9781439909003, 978-1439909003
      ISBN10: 1439909008
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      Conservation of the environment Environmental policy and protocols Central / national / federal government policies

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Examines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy

      Trade Review
      "Cable looks into why we have had powerful laws that regulate specific impacts on high profile issues while topics tangentially related to our dependence on a petroleum-based economy fall into the 'don't bother me now' category of our collective attention and action... In addition to being an able researcher, Cable is a gifted storyteller... she dedicates most of her work to a broad and deep 'what's wrong with this picture' description of where we are and how we got here... This book puts the blame for our mess right where it belongs - on us as a society." Sustainability, August 2012 "Cable offers a sweeping analysis of how humans live outside their means, fostering a false duality between society and biosphere with decidedly unsustainable technological and petroleum energy dependence... Written for a broad audience, the work deftly combines a jargon-free sociological lens on human behavior with biophysical science questions of sustainability. Recommended." - Choice

      Table of 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: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence

      PART Il 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 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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