The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

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The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability
by James Gustave Speth
from Yale University Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Speth is better than a mere "critic".
  Speth provides a critique of western social, economic and political models. While explaining the very real dangers of sustaining the present trend what is even more important is his ability to convey hope and a vision of what we might be able to achieve rather than mere doom-saying and. This is an important lesson critics of all political stripes need to learn - its not enough to warn of the impending disaster, its a vision of the future and how to get there that is the stuff that political change is made... more info

• The view on this bridge is inspiring.
  The view from the Bridge at the Edge of the World is inspiring. Dean Speth offers hope if you are willing to work hard to make the world a better place for humans and all other life. He challenges the cultural values that lead us to avarice and greed and insists that we can do better, we can do much better. We can rise up to become proper stewards of the Earth.
  As a four decade environmentalist he is disappointed with the limited successes of the environmental movement. The movement has not even held... more info

• excellent discussion of environmental crisis and role of capitalism
  The Bridge at the Edge of the World, by James Gustave Speth, is begins with an excellent review of the depth and immediacy of the environmental crisis that faces humanity. The initial graphs give a clear and sobering pictorial representation of the the growing calamity. Paper use, water consumption, species extinction, ozone depletion, CO2 concentration - all of these are on the rise along with our increasing population.
  Speth lays out the argument that our overuse of the finite resources of the planet... more info

• The Bridge at the Edge of the World
  The ideas presented are excellent, logical, and thought provoking!!!
  The book was sometimes hard for me to follow due to less than complete information. It is dull at times. The author is no Thomas Friedman.

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