Growth for Good: Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe
Alessio Terzi
Feb 2023 · Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Mitch Crawford
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Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It's the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the economy? Might this lead to a better society, helping us break free from an obsession with material wealth that only benefits the few? Alessio Terzi takes these questions as a starting point for a journey into the socioeconomic, evolutionary, and cultural origins of our need for growth. Terzi ranges across centuries and diverse civilizations to show that focus on economic expansion is interwoven with the human quest for happiness, wellbeing, and self-determination. Growth is underpinned by core principles and dynamics behind the West's rise to affluence. Today growth contributes to the stability of liberal democracy, the peaceful conduct of international relations, and the way our society is organized. Abandoning growth would not only prove impractical, but would also sow chaos, exacerbating conflict. This does not mean we have to choose between chaos and environmental destruction. Growth for Good presents a credible agenda to enroll capitalism in the fight against climate catastrophe. With the right policies and the help of engaged citizens, pioneering nations can set in motion a global decarbonization wave and create good jobs and a better world.
About the author
Alessio Terzi is an economist at the European Commission's Directorate-General for Economic and Financial Affairs. His research and commentaries have appeared in leading media outlets including BBC World News, Financial Times, and the Wall Street Journal.
A high school teacher for twenty years in history, economics, fine arts, and computer science, Mitch Crawford now works as an actor, model, and voice-over artist. His sincere, trustworthy voice resonates well with children's literature, first- and third-person POV fiction, nonfiction, biography/memoir, and self-help books.
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