Book description
Since the industrial revolution, the economies of developed nations
have grown at the expense of the natural world. But the earth's
resources are finite, climate change threatens to dramatically
transform how and where we live, and the global economic system is in
disarray. One way or another we will have to change. The longer we
delay, the more our societies will be at the mercy of events and the
harsher the eventual adjustments. Fortunately, as this book shows,
there is an alternative. Zac Goldsmith argues for the creation of what
he calls a 'constant economy' - in which resources are valued not
wasted, food is grown sustainably, and goods are built to last. The
constant economy operates at the human scale, and above all it
recognises nature's limits. He shows that almost every action needed
to support the environment is already being carried out somewhere in
the world, by companies, communities and governments determined to
blaze a trail. Where they have done the right thing, their customers
and voters have rewarded them. Practical solutions exist, and they are
brought together and set out in this ground-breaking book.
