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Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual
Urban Meltdown: Cities, Climate Change and Politics as Usual    
Format Softcover
Catalogue No. 978-0-86571-584-4
Pages 252
Language English only
Price $20.95
 

Written by Clive Doucet.
Published by New Society Publishers, 2007.

Description:
Poet, city councillor and urban activist, Clive Doucet provides a razor-sharp insider’s perspective into how explosive urban growth is accelerating global warming, and why political action seems paralyzed. Faced with powerful lobby groups and re-election pressures, many elected officials have pushed environmental issues on the back burner. Stating his central theme: “It’s not about planning. It’s about politics,” Doucet asserts that climate change is proceeding so quickly not for lack of knowledge, but because politicians who deviate from the car-based sprawl model cannot get elected.

Urban Meltdown describes how we got here, why we got here, and what can be done about it, as evidenced by the author’s observations that:
  • economic growth has no built-in environmental accountability;
  • until the political thinking about growth and the progress model itself is changed, our environmental concerns will never be properly addressed;
  • we need a new governance paradigm at all three levels, and
  • the cautionary tale of how the 1960s tried to take us down a different route but failed, not for lack of leadership but because the system didn’t permit it.
Urban Meltdown reveals, castigates and inspires. This is an important book for anyone who cares about thinking differently, acting differently and making a difference.

  
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