Capitalism – As if the World Matters

Citation

(2006), "Capitalism – As if the World Matters", Management of Environmental Quality, Vol. 17 No. 2. https://doi.org/10.1108/meq.2006.08317bae.005

Capitalism – As if the World Matters

Jonathon PorrittEarthscan,London2005ISBN 1844071928304 pp.£18.99

As our great economic machine grinds relentlessly forward into a future of declining fossil fuel supplies, climate change and ecosystem failure, humanity, by necessity, is beginning to question the very structure of the economy that has provided so much wealth, and inequity, across the world.

In this fresh, politically charged analysis, Jonathon Porritt wades in on the most pressing question of the twenty-first century – can capitalism, as the only real economic game in town, be retooled to deliver a sustainable future? Porritt argues that indeed it can and it must as he lays out the framework for a new “sustainable capitalism” that cuts across the political divide and promises a prosperous future of wealth, equity and ecosystem integrity.