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Fleeing Vesuvius, NZ Edition
Fleeing Vesuvius is a practical and fundamentally optimistic book. It's 39 authors, all leading thinkers in their fields, take a hard look at many of the problems facing humanity and offer far-reaching solutions.
The book's overall aim is to arm its readers with the knowledge they need to develop new ways of doing things instead of staggering from crisis to crisis trying to patch up systems that are only suited to economies that can grow and grow.
The book's overall aim is to arm its readers with the knowledge they need to develop new ways of doing things instead of staggering from crisis to crisis trying to patch up systems that are only suited to economies that can grow and grow.
514 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2011
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February 9, 2012
An excellent book produced by Feasta in Ireland, using contributions from academics and ecologists working with alternative economy solutions.
NZ edition has contributions from many varying authors, some who are migrants from Europe and some indigenous perspectives.
A must-read if you are interested in steady-state economies, alternative currency communities, or are curious as to how the current global financial crisis can be solved by admitting that perpetual GDP growth is impossible to sustain, thus the world has to acknowledge that communities must 'grow less' to be sustainable in our finite world.
NZ edition has contributions from many varying authors, some who are migrants from Europe and some indigenous perspectives.
A must-read if you are interested in steady-state economies, alternative currency communities, or are curious as to how the current global financial crisis can be solved by admitting that perpetual GDP growth is impossible to sustain, thus the world has to acknowledge that communities must 'grow less' to be sustainable in our finite world.
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