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Here’s Your Sustainability Summer Reading List

Summer is here, hopefully bringing more opportunities to catch up on leisure reading. While you may eat, drink and breathe news and feature articles, a deep dive into a good book can bring deeper knowledge and satisfaction.

Whether postcapitalism, billion-dollar brands, the circular economy or grand strategies pique your interest, there are plenty of great new titles this summer.

Below, find seven new books that should be on every corporate sustainability professional’s radar. (You’ll also find our latest excerpts of books here, which GreenBiz runs on Saturdays.)

1. Postcapitalism: A Guide to Our Future

Author: Paul Mason

Topic: Economics

What it’s about

Could the end of capitalism be nigh? Paul Mason suggests capitalism will collapse under the weight of its own internal contradictions, including unsustainable levels of debt on the part of both individuals and nations. Arguing that the Great Recession was “the tremor in advance of the earthquake,” Mason claims that business-as-usual capitalism is on a crash course for disaster by 2050.

To repair our economic system, Mason writes that we must reduce carbon emissions, stabilize the financial system and “deliver high levels of material prosperity and well being to the majority of people, primarily by prioritizing information-rich technologies towards solving major social challenges such as ill-health, welfare dependency, sexual education and poor education.” He also says that we should rapidly advance automation technology to reduce necessary work.

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