A Diet of Austerity by Elaine Grahamleigh

A Diet of Austerity by Elaine Grahamleigh

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How and why the working class are being blamed for climate change, and what we can do about it.

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A Diet of Austerity by Elaine Grahamleigh

Received wisdom is increasingly that we all have to eat less to save the planet, but received wisdom is wrong. A Diet of Austerity argues that, just as the poor are blamed for the economic crisis, Malthusian conceptions about food and ecology are being used to hold the working class responsible for climate change and global hunger. Challenging existing dogmas about overconsumption and personal responsibility, it shows that what we need to stop climate change is system change.
Elaine Graham-Leigh is a member of Counterfire and a former member of the steering committee of the Campaign against Climate Change. She has been speaking on climate change for more than a decade, at events ranging from small public meetings to national demonstrations. She has written widely on this and other political issues, particularly for www.counterfire.org, and has articles republished by New Internationalist and in the Handbook of the Climate Movement.
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ISBN 13 9781782797401
ISBN 10 1782797408
Title A Diet of Austerity
Author Elaine Grahamleigh
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Collective Ink
Year published 2015-04-24
Number of pages 250
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