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

Title: Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring on the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World Author: Paul Gilding ISBN: 9781608192236 Publisher: Bloomsbury Press Published: 2011 Binding: Hardcover Language: English Publisher Description: One of those who has been warning me of [a coming crisis] for a long time is Paul Gilding, the Australian environmental business expert. He has a name for this moment-when both Mother Nature and Father Greed have hit the wall at once-'The Great Disruption.' -Thomas Friedman in the New York Times It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growt