For the Common Good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future by economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr blames mainstream economics and the pursuit of growth for the current environmental crisis, and explains how we can solve it. They argue that human wants are not in fact insatiable; that cosmopolitanism should be replaced with the ideal of small communities; and that the pursuit of world domination by countries such as the US is damaging to their own security as well as the wider planet. The answer, they say, lies in shifting from an economic-driven world view to one that prioritises community and the environment.
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For the Common Good: Redirecting the economy toward community, the environment, and a sustainable future by economist Herman Daly and theologian John Cobb, Jr blames mainstream economics and the pursuit of growth for the current environmental crisis, and explains how we can solve it. They argue that human wants are not in fact insatiable; that cosmopolitanism should be replaced with the ideal of small communities; and that the pursuit of world domination by countries such as the US is damaging to their own security as well as the wider planet. The answer, they say, lies in shifting from an economic-driven world view to one that prioritises community and the environment.