Neoliberalism refers to market-oriented reform policies around the globe. Neoliberal capitalism is concerned only with growth, wealth, and increased power in the private economic sector. Neoliberalism, the book asserts, is one of the reasons why societies around the world struggle to divest from fossil fuels and carbon emissions: because our global society is only centered on profit and expansion rather than conscious consumption or stewardship of nature.
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Neoliberalism Term Timeline in The Uninhabitable Earth
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Part III, The Climate Kaleidoscope, Chapter 4: Politics of Consumption
These half-measures grow out of the political ethos of neoliberalism, which promised unending growth in the markets of the West. But the blind spots of...
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With the collapse of neoliberalism, authoritarianism at the global level might begin to rise. A “neoliberalism beyond neoliberalism” in which...
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Part IV, The Anthropic Principle
...other words, to reclaim stewardship of our one precious Earth—is to escape the bounds of neoliberal thought and reframe the human experience entirely. Accepting responsibility for what humanity has done to...
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