Reviews for The productive society

The average rating for The productive society based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2016-02-10 00:00:00 Bianka Matchett I read Barry Commoner, Rachel Carson, Amory Lovins, Aldo Leopold and Edward Abbey all in the space of a few short years and was able to find clarity and reason while devoting my life to creating community and changing the world. Over the years, I have understood ever more complex arguments about the collapse of the empires that humans have built in the 17th to 20th centuries because of these writers, among others. Commoner was a REAL scientist (meaning that he questioned the hypothesis too) who shone a strong light on murky environmental deals done by polluters and governments. Still worth reading and sharing.

Review # 2 was written on 2020-12-12 00:00:00 Jane Duchscher An interesting study of US energy during the 1970s energy crisis that blends thermodynamics and Marxist economics in developing a criticism of capitalism as an unsustainable system that can only survive by decimating the economy and people. But it is very dated and, because climate change was not a widely known issue, it misses a key ingredient in its fairly devastating attack on capitalist economics.