Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution

This challenging analysis examines the environmental and cultural costs of industrialization and forecasts a transition to a new economy that succeeds by working with natural resources, instead of depleting them.

"[E]xceedingly useful, a landmark of sorts..." - Krishna Chandra Sagar (New York Review of Books, 5/25/00)

"[This book] is so informative and provocative--and so unfashionably optimistic about the future of the planet--that I wonder why everyone in public life is not reading it and arguing over the implications....NATURAL CAPITALISM poses an intelligent challenge to lazy assumptions on both sides of the political divide and ought to jump-start a reinvigorated environmental debate." - Craig Savoye (Nation, 2/28/00)

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