Planet Dialectics

This is a collection of explorations of some of the foremost issues the world faces at the end of the century. It considers the crisis of the Western world's relations with nature and social justice, examining: efficiency - the mantra of our times; speed - the love affair with modernity; globalization - a market inevitability and the juggernaut of history; sustainability - oxymoron as rhetoric; development - the 20th century's great undelivered promise; and limits - a new principle for the coming century.

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"Sachs's ideas are dynamite. They call into question the whole phase of human activity which we are used to describing as development." --"New Internationalist"<br><br>"Short, pithy and well reasoned." --"Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society"<br><br>"Unique . . . the book is a scream of pain from the receiving end of a process experienced as cultural genocide." --"The Guardian (London)"<br>

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Part 1 The archaeology of the development idea: the archaeology of the development idea - a guide to the ruins, the discovery of poverty, technology as a Trojan Horse, the economist's blind eye, from "development" to "security" Part 2 The shaky ground of sustainability: global ecology and the shadow of development - Truman and what followed, ambiguous claims for justice, Earth's finiteness as a management problem, bargaining for the rest of nature, efficiency and sufficiency, the hegemony of globalism; the gospel of global efficiency - more out of less, resources everywhere, never enough, always rational; environment and development - the story of a dangerous liaison - setting the stage for the Brundtland report, a successful ambivalence, survival as a new raison d'etat, global knowledge versus local knowledge, towards a global ecocracy? sustainable development - the political anatomy of an oxymoron - at the dawn of the security age, the horns of the dilemma, the context perspective, the astronaut's perspective, the home perspective. Part 3 In the image of the planet: one world - many worlds? one mankind, one market, one planet, space against place, cosmopolitan localism; the blue planet - on the ambiguity of a modern icon - the construction of the Earth through an image, invention of the biosphere, the image and sentimental ecology,the image and technocratic ecology; globalization and sustainability. Part 4 Ecology and equity in a post-development era: ecology, justice and the end of development - point of departure, landslide, impasse, the new colour of justice, an opening; the two meanings of resource productivity - productivity as abundance, productivity as efficiency, can limits be productive? the full sense of resource productivity, the blind spot of efficiency, efficiency and sufficiency; speed limits - body and machine, colliding timescales, double power, in remembrance of time gained, counterproductive effects, selective slowness; the power of limits - an inquiry into new models of wealth - eco-intelligent goods and services, lower speeds and the plurality of time scales, shorter distances and the plurality of spaces, wealth in time rather than wealth in goods, well-being instead of well-having.

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