The great disruption: why the climate crisis will bring on the end of shopping and the birth of a new world

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Gilding, Paul

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2011.

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English

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Ferguson, Antony Narrator
Gilding, Paul Author

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9781608192236
9781452625454

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From the Book - First U.S. edition.

Time to get ready

An economic and social hurricane

The scream : we are their children's children

A very big problem

Beyond the limits : the great disruption

Addicted to growth

Global foreshock : the year that growth stopped

The road ahead : our planetary sat nav

Are we finished?

When the dam of denial breaks

The one degree war

How an Austrian economist could save the world

Creative destruction on steroids : out with the old, in with the new

Shifting sands : from Middle Eastern oil to Chinese sun

The elephant in the room : growth doesn't work

The happiness economy

Yes, there is life after shopping

No, the poor will not always be with us

Ineffective inequality

The future is here, it's just not widely distributed yet

Guess who's in charge?

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Economic development -- Environmental aspects
Economic development -- Social aspects
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Social change
Social ecology

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