The Price is Wrong: Why Capitalism Won't Save the Planet - Softcover

Christophers, Brett

 
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Synopsis

Why the market will never solve the Climate Crisis

RECENT TECHNICAL ADVANCES mean it is typically cheaper to produce electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels. Yet, around the world, the transition to green energy is happening too slowly if it is happening at all. As Brett Christophers argues, the problem is rooted in the absurdist nature of capitalist priorities: saving the planet on which our lives depend is not sufficiently profitable.

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About the Author

Brett Christophers is a political economist and economic geographer, and the author of Our Lives in Their Portfolios, Rentier Capitalism and of The New Enclosure, which won the Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize.

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ISBN 10:  1804292303 ISBN 13:  9781804292303
Publisher: Verso Books, 2024
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