Self-devouring growth : a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa / Julie Livingston.

Main entry:

Livingston, Julie, author.

Title & Author:

Self-devouring growth : a planetary parable as told from Southern Africa / Julie Livingston.

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.

Description:

xiii, 160 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Series:

Critical global health: evidence, efficacy, ethnography

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Summary:

"Under capitalism, economic growth is seen as the key to collective wellbeing. In Self-Devouring Growth Julie Livingston upends this notion, showing that while consumption-driven growth may seem to benefit a particular locale, it produces a number of unacknowledged, negative consequences that ripple throughout the wider world. Structuring the book as a parable in which the example of Botswana has lessons for the rest of the globe, Livingston shows how fundamental needs for water, food, and transportation become harnessed to what she calls self-devouring growth: an unchecked and unsustainable global pursuit of economic growth that threatens catastrophic environmental destruction. As Livingston notes, improved technology alone cannot stave off such destruction; what is required is a greater accounting of the web of relationships between humans, nonhuman beings, plants, and minerals that growth entails. Livingston contends that by failing to understand these relationships and the consequences of self-devouring growth we may be unknowingly consuming our future"-- Provided by publisher.

ISBN:

9781478005087 (hardcover)
1478005084 (hardcover)
9781478006398 (paperback)
1478006390 (paperback)
(ebook)
9781478007005

Subject:

Economic development Environmental aspects Botswana.
Consumption (Economics) Environmental aspects Botswana.
Développement économique Aspect de l'environnement Botswana.
Société de consommation Aspect de l'environnement Botswana.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History.
Consumption (Economics) Environmental aspects
Economic development Environmental aspects
Umweltschaden
Wirtschaftswachstum
Volkswirtschaft.
Botswana

Added entries:

Critical global health.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 307197
Call No.: BIB 252689
Status: Available

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