Sustainable Failures

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: The Petro-dependent Mode of Subsistence

PART Il 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 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