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    Sustainable Failures
    Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World

    Sherry Cable (Author)

    9781439909003

    Paperback / softback, published 10 August 2012

    242 pages
    22.9 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm, 0.666 kg

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

    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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