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The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
Written by Paul Gilding
Narrated by Antony Ferguson
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About this audiobook
It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul
Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our
planet's ecosystems and sources.The Great Disruption offers a stark and unflinching look at the challenge humanity faces-yet
also a deeply optimistic message. The coming decades will see loss,
suffering, and conflict as our planetary overdraft is paid; however, they will also bring out the best humanity can offer: compassion, innovation, resilience, and adaptability. Gilding tells us how to fight-and in-what he calls the One Degree War to prevent catastrophic warming of the earth, and how to start today.The crisis represents a rare chance to replace our addiction to growth with an ethic of sustainability, and it's already happening. It's also an
unmatched business opportunity: Old industries will collapse while new companies will literally reshape our economy. In the aftermath of the Great Disruption, we will measure "growth" in a new way. It will mean not quantity of stuff but quality and happiness of life. Yes, there is life after shopping.
Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version 1.0, a world economy based on consumption and waste, where we lived beyond the means of our
planet's ecosystems and sources.The Great Disruption offers a stark and unflinching look at the challenge humanity faces-yet
also a deeply optimistic message. The coming decades will see loss,
suffering, and conflict as our planetary overdraft is paid; however, they will also bring out the best humanity can offer: compassion, innovation, resilience, and adaptability. Gilding tells us how to fight-and in-what he calls the One Degree War to prevent catastrophic warming of the earth, and how to start today.The crisis represents a rare chance to replace our addiction to growth with an ethic of sustainability, and it's already happening. It's also an
unmatched business opportunity: Old industries will collapse while new companies will literally reshape our economy. In the aftermath of the Great Disruption, we will measure "growth" in a new way. It will mean not quantity of stuff but quality and happiness of life. Yes, there is life after shopping.
Author
Paul Gilding
Paul Gilding is an international thought leader and advocate for sustainability. He has served as head of Greenpeace International, built and led two companies, and advised both Fortune 500 corporations and community-based NGOs. A member of the core faculty for the University of Cambridge's Programme for Sustainability Leadership, he lives in Tasmania with his family.
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Reviews for The Great Disruption
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I've always felt a bit helpless in the face of all the evidence in support of climate change and didn't really know what I should be doing about it. This is the first book (of a great many) that I've read that clearly outlines what we need to do and also offers hope if we do it (soon!!).
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Since the consequences of not cutting growth and addressing climate change are so bad then, he reasons, we will over come them by just such and effort that England and the US undertook in WWII. I am skeptical. Much has been made of England's undertaking, but what of Germany and Japan?
- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Gilding could have said what he wanted to say in a few punchy chapters and spared us from a drawn-out, data poor, verbose read interspersed with cliches, corny humor and self-aggrandizement. His book lacks credibility and does little for the environmental cause he's so desperate to promote. Struggled to finish it.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Toyed with just two stars on this. Nothing new...nothing earth-shattering...nothing that will convince anybody he's right, and his solutions are amateurishly obvious...therefore pretty much unlikely until ultimately forced.
I get his passion, and his personal contribution. This book didn't capture me, though.