Come On!: Capitalism, Short-Termism, Population and the Destruction of the Planet

by Ernst Ulrich von Weizsäcker

Book Overview

Current worldwide trends are not sustainable. The Club of Rome's warnings published in the book Limits to Growth are still valid. Remedies that are acceptable for the great majority tend to make things worse. We seem to be in a philosophical crisis. Pope Francis says it clearly: our common home is in deadly danger. Analyzing the philosophical crisis, the book comes to the conclusion that the world may need a "new enlightenment"; one that is not...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1493974181
• ISBN13: 9781493974184
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"