AlterNet: The following is reprinted from the new book How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth by Herve Kempf and published by Chelsea Green. There is an emergency. In less than a decade we will have to change course — assuming the collapse of the U.S. economy or the explosion of the Middle East does not impose a change through chaos. To confront the emergency, we must understand the objective: to achieve a sober society; to plot out the way there; to accomplish this transformation equitably, by …