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diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index b0817fa..3609d0b 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -193,10 +193,12 @@ footprint calculator, which had previously been an obscure concept. Having mis-diagnosed the root causes of the problem, green rhetors too often go on to propose incredible solutions. The worst is simply to cut consumption. Since _The Limits to Growth_ was published for the Club of Rome in 1972 -[@limits-to-growth], the green movement has frequently emphasised a message of -austerity or 'de-growth,' echoing the austerity rhetoric which dominated the -cost-of-living discourse in the 1970s and since that time -[@climate-change-class-war, pp. 158-159]. +[@limits-to-growth], bolstered by eco-classics such as _Small Is Beautiful_ +(1973) [@small-is-beautiful] and _The Population Bomb_ (1968) [@population-bomb] +the green movement has frequently emphasised a message of austerity or +'de-growth,' echoing the austerity rhetoric which dominated the cost-of-living +discourse in the 1970s and since that time [@climate-change-class-war, pp. +158-159]. So, in 2006, George Monbiot set out his manifesto for putting the UK through a 90% cut in greenhouse gas emissions. While Monbiot acknowledged that austerity |