Sustainable Failures : Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World

Contents
Preface
Part I - Rationale for Sustainable Environmental Policy
1. The Shape of Sustainable Environmental Policy
2. Modes of Human Subsistence, Environmental Impacts, and Environmental Policies
3. The Poisoning of the Biosphere: Th e Petro-dependent Modeof Subsistence
Part II - The United States:Prototype Petro-dependent Society
4. Petro-dependent Environmental Policies
5. Violations of Ecological Principles: Resource Depletion and Pollution
6. Living in the State of Denial: Conflict and the Contamination of Workplaces, Communities, and Citizens
7. Broken Promises: Environmental Injustices
8. Petro-dependent Obstacles to Sustainable Policies: The Corporate State and Its Institutional and Cultural Reflections
Part III - Environmental Policy in the Petro-dependent Empire
9. International Environmental Policymaking
10. Global Environmental Problems: Overpopulation, Peak Oil, and Climate Change
11. Sustaining Unsustainability: The Transnational Corporate State
Part IV - And So . . .
12. Once There Was a Planet in the Milky Way Galaxy . . .
Appendix - Websites and Mission Statements: NGO Partners for the Global Plan of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities
References
Index