James Gustave Speth

James Gustave Speth, a former dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and the author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing From Crisis to Sustainability (Yale), is co-chair of the Democracy Collaborative’s Next System Project and is on the board of the New Economy Coalition.

Environmental ActivismApril 14, 2016

A Radical Alliance of Black and Green Could Save the World

But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.

James Gustave Speth and J. Phillip Thompson III
Climate ChangeJanuary 27, 2015

Am I a ‘Radical’?

We can no longer hope to address the climate crisis, or our deep social ills, by working strictly within the system. We must change the system itself.

James Gustave Speth
Climate ChangeSeptember 18, 2008

Global Warming and Modern Capitalism

Environmentalists must learn to join forces with other agents of change.

James Gustave Speth

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James Gustave Speth

Environmental ActivismApril 14, 2016

But first the two movements will have to rediscover their shared roots in a fundamental critique of an economy and a society that value things more than lives.

Climate ChangeJanuary 27, 2015

We can no longer hope to address the climate crisis, or our deep social ills, by working strictly within the system. We must change the system itself.

Climate ChangeSeptember 18, 2008

Environmentalists must learn to join forces with other agents of change.