The Great Disruption
Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World

Gilding's premise is that the current "system" (economy and culture based on continuous growth and the accumulation of "stuff") is unsustainable and must be replaced by one that is sustainable (steady state economy with redistribution of wealth and a focus on personal development, human relationship......more

I heard of this book on NPR and was intrigued because it was a book about the next 20-50 years that was not completely doom and gloom. Much different than the usual "run for the hills and raise hogs and chickens" type of message. The author is a veteran environmentalist who has actually put his mone......more

I want to believe that Gilding is creating a book to convince CEOs to do fewer bad things, and that that's why he wrote it, and no other reason. I want to believe he doesn't necessarily agree with himself because a lot of the things he's saying don't make sense for people living CEO-free lives. He s......more

If you no longer need argument and proof that the resources of this planet are finite skip to chapter 16. The author's premise from that point on is that the imminent catastrophic events that will precipitate the meltdown of our ecosystem as well as our civilization will jolt us into a mode of hyper......more

Please read this book. Gilding makes the most coherent argument that I have read about the interconnections between capitalism, peak energy, and climate change, including several basic arguments that would ideally be understood by everyone. 1) The capitalist expectation of infinite economic growth is......more