Capitalism and the Environment

Rising economic inequality has put capitalism on trial globally. At the same time existential environmental threats worsen while corporations continue to pollute and distort government policy. These twin crises have converged in calls to revamp government and economic systems and to revisit socialism given up for dead only 30 years ago. In Capitalism and the Environment Shi-Ling Hsu argues that such an impulse if enacted will ultimately harm the environment. Hsu argues that inequality and environmental calamities are political failures the result of bad decision-making and not a symptom of capitalism. Like socialism capitalism is composed of political choices. This book proposes that we make a different set of choices to better harness the transformative power of capitalism which will allow us to reverse course and save the environment.