Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice: The Polluter-Industrial Complex in the Age of Globalization (Nature's Meaning)
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| Rating | : | 4.14 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0742533921 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice explores compelling movements to challenge the polluter-industrial complex and bring about meaningful social transformation.. However, not all people are impacted equally. Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice provides a comprehensive overview of the achievements and challenges confronting the environmental justice movement. In addition, corporate-led globalization exports many ecological hazards abroad. Pressured by increased international competition and the demand for higher profits, industrial and political leaders are working to weaken many of America's most essential environmental, occupational, and consumer protection laws. The result is a deepening of the ecological crisis in both the United States and the Global South. Daniel Faber, a leading environmental sociologist, analyzes the global political and economic forces that create these environmental injustices. In this process of capital restructuring, it is the most marginalized segments of society -poor people of color and the working class-that suffer the greatest force of corporate environmental abuses. With a multi-disciplinary approach, Faber presents both broad overviews and powerful insider case studies, examining the connections between many different struggles for
A great and insightful look at environmental injustice This book goes to the heart of why we have an environmental crisis. The rabid drive for captialist profit--regardless of the environmental consequences---has created what the author calls a "Polluter-Industrial Complex". So, thanks to the ONE PERCENT and Corporate greed---as exemplified by the Mitt Romney types of the world, we are all suffering.
Faber is provocative and honest as he carefully lays out an indictment of the institution he cleverly calls the polluter-industrial complex. Capitalizing on Environmental Injustice exposes the ugly underbelly of capitalism and its parasitic dependency on structural racism and classism for profits. (Pellow, David Naguib)Daniel Faber's searing critique details the depressing realities of the economic, political and social contours of America's worst corporate polluters. This book needs to be widely read and discussed, both within the academic community, and in the larger environmental movement. He provides i
He co-founded the international journal Capitalism, Nature, Socialism and is the author or editor of several books, including Foundations for Social Change. . Daniel Faber is director of the Northeastern Environmental Justice Research Collaborative in Boston