{"product_id":"sustainable-failures-9781439909003","title":"Sustainable Failures","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExamines environmental policy from a sociological perspective, showing how our petro-dependency causes unprecedented environmental damage and threatens our democracy\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e1 The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy\u003cbr\u003e2 Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies\u003cbr\u003e3 The Poisoning of the Biosphere: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART Il The United States: Prototype Petro-dependent Society \u003cbr\u003e4 Petro-dependent Environmental Policies\u003cbr\u003e5 Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution\u003cbr\u003e6 Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens\u003cbr\u003e7 Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices\u003cbr\u003e8 Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural Reflections\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART III Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire\u003cbr\u003e9 International Environmental Policymaking\u003cbr\u003e10 Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change\u003cbr\u003e11 Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate State\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART IV And So . . . \u003cbr\u003e12 Once There Was a Planet in the Way Galaxy. . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAPPENDIX Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection \u003cbr\u003eof the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReferences\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Temple University Press,U.S.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408306118999,"sku":"9781439909003","price":22.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781439909003.jpg?v=1730502372","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sustainable-failures-9781439909003","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}