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| Title Statement | The sustainability class: how to take back our future from lifestyle environmentalists / Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan. |
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| Alternative Title(s) | How to take back our future from lifestyle environmentalists |
| Author | Kolinjivadi, Vijay |
| Additional Contributors | Vansintjan, Aaron |
| Publication | New York: The New Press,2024. |
| Extent of Item | 340 pages |
| ISBN | 9781620977439 (hardcover) |
| Other Number | pr06923034 |
| Contents | The rise of the sustainability class --What is ecology? --Purity --Innovation --Efficiency --The PIE in the sky --Exclusively green --Taking back the future. |
| Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Summary | "A sustainability apartheid is emerging. More than ever, urban residents want to be green, yet to cater to their interests, a green-tech service economy has sprung up, co-opting well-intentioned concerns over sustainability to sell a resource-heavy and exclusive "lifestyle environmentalism." This has made cities more unsustainable and inaccessible to the working class. The Sustainability Class is about those wealthy "progressive" urbanites convinced that we can save the planet through individual action, smart urbanism, green finance, and technological innovation. Authors Vijay Kolinjivadi and Aaron Vansintjan challenge many of the popular ideas about environmentalism, showing that it is actually the sustainability class itself that is unsustainable. The solutions they propose work to safeguard an elite minority, exclude billions of people, and ultimately hasten ecological breakdown, not reverse it"-- |
| Subjects & Genres | |
| By Topic | Environmentalism--Social aspects |
| Sustainable living--Economic aspects | |
| Sustainability--Social aspects | |
| Sustainable living--Social aspects | |
