A Democracy Built to Last: Green/Populist Steps Toward a Livable Future - Tapa blanda

A DEMOCRACY BUILT TO LAST is a political essay on sustainability and democracy: it makes the case that continuous growth/expansion of industrial economies, including the American economy, is threatening human well-being and the human future, while economic inequality and corporate power are obstructing sustainable, environmentally sound alternatives. Chapters on energy, transportation, farming, health, and education outline public policies and private choices designed to protect the earth, and to enhance the quality of our lives, rather than the quantity of our goods.

A DEMOCRACY BUILT TO LAST is a rare challenge to what has become a dogma in American political and economic thinking: economic growth as the goal of public policy. In reality it is economic growth in a finite world that is the cause of spreading disruption of the earth's natural balances and depletion of its resources. The author argues that our growth trends are not only unsustainable, they may not be survivable, but that we do have promising, sustainable alternatives.