Book description
In EcoMind , Frances Moore Lappe,a giant of the environmental movement,confronts accepted wisdom of environmentalism. Drawing on the latest research from anthropology to neuroscience and her own field experience, she argues that the biggest challenge to human survival isn't our fossil fuel dependency, melting glaciers, or other calamities. Rather, it's…
Why read it?
1 author picked EcoMind as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
I love this book because it showed me that we can have growth without pollution, because the most important growth is the improvement of the joy our lives bring to us, not an increase in the GDP.
Real growth means making people healthier, eliminating hunger, creating rich natural and cultural communities, and providing more opportunities to walk to where we want to go. The old claim that it is “jobs vs. the environment” is shown to be false.
From John's list on why and how to save the environment.
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