Stop Saving the Planet!, Jenny Price
Stop Saving the Planet!, Jenny Price
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Stop Saving the Planet!
An Environmentalist Manifesto

Author: Jenny Price

Narrator: Hillary Huber

Unabridged: 2 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/21/2021


Synopsis

"Pithy, funny, exasperated, and informed . . . You cannot read a more important hundred pages than Stop Saving the Planet!" —Richard White, author of The Republic for Which It Stands

We've been "saving the planet" for decades! . . . And environmental crises just get worse. All this hybrid driving and LEED building and carbon trading seems to accomplish little to nothing—and low-income communities continue to suffer the worst consequences.

Why aren't we cleaning up the toxic messes and rolling back climate change? And why do so many Americans hate environmentalists?

Jenny Price says Enough already! with this short, fun, fierce manifesto for an environmentalism that is hugely more effective, a whole lot fairer, and infinitely less righteous. She challenges you, corporate sustainability officers, and the EPA to think and act completely anew—and to start right now—to ensure a truly habitable future.

About Jenny Price

Jenny Price is a writer, artist, historian, and author of Flight Maps: Adventures with Nature in Modern America. She lives in St. Louis, Missouri.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Brandon

For a book constructed around a simple premise — stop treating the environment as a separate world — the delivery and arguments feel abstract and disconnected, so much so that I had to keep going back to the intro to understand just what we’re talking about here. The arguments are valid — everything......more

Goodreads review by Lisa

STOP SAVING THE PLANET! argues that too much of the conversation about environmental crises focuses on individual consumer actions, when the problems can only be solved at a systemic level. In this opinionated, accessible book, Price calls for corporate accountability, a reframing of environmentalis......more

I got the book because I so enjoyed listening to Jenny on the Post Carbon Institute podcast. Indeed, a lot of the book is full of things I appreciate her saying. However, it is somehow both quite niche and broad and feels hastily thrown together. Parts were very difficult to read. The book primarily......more

Price has written a “Listen, Liberal”-style wakeup call for environmentalists. “Environment” has, ludicrously, become a dirty word, and simply another aspect of the culture wars rather than something that we all live in and are affected by each day. Polluting corporations and the politicians and pundi......more