Gus Speth’s compelling new analysis and how-to book for the world: The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability.

By James Gustave Speth
Yale University Press 2008

 

If human civilization keeps on the current path, even without a growing population or world economy, the would be unfit for life by century’s end.

Gus Speth, globally respected environmentalist and author of Red Sky at Morning, opens his new book with the paradoxical insight that while the environmental community has grown significantly, the environment continues to be degrade to a point nearing catastrophe.

 

The Bridge at the Edge of the World is a critical indictment of the economics and politics of capitalism. Our collective objective now is to re-write the operating manual  before it's too late. The book is a veritable “how-to”  for sustainability.

 

Gus Speth is dean of the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies at Yale University. He was awarded Japan’s Blue Planet Prize for “a lifetime of creative and visionary leadership in the search for science-based solutions to global environmental problems.”

 

Listen here for a podcast interview with the author.