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Farewell to Growth
Serge Latouche
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Paperback. Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Num Pages: 180 pages. BIC Classification: JFFT; KCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 139 x 7. Weight in Grams: 198.
Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Above all we refuse to address the issue that lies at the heart of our problems - namely, the fact that our societies are based on an economy whose only ... Read more
Most of us who live in the North and the West consume far too much - too much meat, too much fat, too much sugar, too much salt. We are more likely to put on too much weight than to go hungry. We live in a society that is heading for a crash. We are aware of what is happening and yet we refuse to take it fully into account. Above all we refuse to address the issue that lies at the heart of our problems - namely, the fact that our societies are based on an economy whose only ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Polity Press
Number of pages
180
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Condition
New
Weight
197g
Number of Pages
180
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745646176
SKU
V9780745646176
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About Serge Latouche
Serge Latouche is Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris-Sud.
Reviews for Farewell to Growth
I would like to use the opportunity of this review to urge readers to take up Latouche's remarkable book. Sustainability, Science, Practice , and Policy This little book is a pleasure to read. It is critical, contrarian, informative and provocative. Latouche advances a coherent set of proposals for reversing the treadmill of an ever-more insistent growth dynamic in ... Read more