Dive into the eye-opening analysis of environmentalism with Jenny Price's groundbreaking book, "Stop Saving the Planet!" This compelling 2021 release published by W W Norton & Company delivers a critical look at how our well-meaning efforts to save the Earth have often led us astray. Price highlights the irony of affluent lifestyles that claim to support sustainability while perpetuating harmful practices that damage our planet and underserved communities. Through wit and sharp insight, she explores the shortcomings of strategies like carbon trading, green consumerism, and greenwashing that fail to address the root causes of environmental decline.

At just 144 pages, this brand new book will challenge your perceptions of traditional environmental policies and encourage you to rethink your role in the ecological crisis. Why are we not resolving the damage we've done? What is it that breeds resentment towards environmentalists? Jenny Price provides trailblazing answers and urges a shift towards sustainable practices that prioritize genuine environmental justice over superficial fixes. Discover a new path forward that focuses not just on saving, but thriving alongside our environment.

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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780393540871
Year: 2021
Publisher: W W Norton & Company
Pages: 144


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We've been ?saving the planet!? for decades now, and the crises have only gotten worse. Many of us?environmentalists included?continue to live deeply unsustainable lives. At home, affluent Americans ?buy green?; while at work, they maximize profits with dirty energy and toxic industries that are poisoning our poorer communities.


With brevity, humor, and plenty of attitude, Jenny Price tracks ?save the planet!? enthusiasm through strategies that range from ridiculously ineffective (Prius-buying and carbon trading) to flat-out counterproductive (greenwashing, and public subsidies to greenwash). We need to imagine far better ways to use and inhabit environments. Why aren't we cleaning up the messes we've already made? And why do so many people hate environmentalists? Price offers trailblazing answers, along with powerful ideas for how to divest from self-destruction and invest in mutual survival.