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Speth wore a suit and tie, but his work didn t reflect the status quo. Take the 1981 report in which he wrote the seemingly science-fiction claim that many scientists now believe that, if global ...

Contemporary capitalism and a habitable planet cannot coexist. That is the core message of The Bridge at the Edge of the World, by J. "Gus" Speth, a prominent environmentalist who, in this book, has ...

It's difficult to imagine any but the most righteous recyclers and committed Cassandras looking forward with real pleasure to James Gustave Speth's Red Sky at Morning. The sailor's warning in the ...