Hans A. Baer
Motor Vehicles, the Environment, and the Human Condition
Driving to Extinction
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The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world sys…
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The world now has more than a billion motor vehicles, and this number continues to increase as developing countries imitate developed societies in their adoption of the culture of automobility. This book explores the political ecology of motor vehicles in an era of growing social disparities and environmental crises, the latter of which are most manifest in anthropogenic climate change to which motor vehicles constitute a major contributor. A political ecological perspective recognizes that motor vehicles, perhaps more than any other machine, embody the social, structural, cultural, and environmental contradictions of the capitalist world system. In addition to highlighting many of the environmental, social, and health, environmental consequences of humanity's increasing reliance on motor vehicles, particularly private automobiles, this book argues that ultimately we need as a species to move beyond motor vehicles as much as possible but that such an effort will have be part and parcel of creating an alternative world system based on social justice, democratic processes, environmental sustainability, and a safe climate, one termed democratic eco-socialism.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-79360-489-7
- EAN: 9781793604897
- Produktnummer: 32680443
- Verlag: Lexington Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 587 KB
Über den Autor
Hans A. Baer is principal honorary research fellow in the School of Social Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne and author of Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia: Transitioning to an Alternative World System.
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