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Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations 2nd edition [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm, kaal: 451 g, 12 b&w photographs, 3 b&w figures
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2009
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745327281
  • ISBN-13: 9780745327280
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  • Formaat: Hardback, 336 pages, kõrgus x laius: 198x129 mm, kaal: 451 g, 12 b&w photographs, 3 b&w figures
  • Ilmumisaeg: 20-Feb-2009
  • Kirjastus: Pluto Press
  • ISBN-10: 0745327281
  • ISBN-13: 9780745327280
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New edition of this highly acclaimed guide-- 'Creative and compelling.' Guardian 'Essential reading.' Head of the IPCC 'A new phrase has entered the language.' Anita Roddick This is the second edition of Andrew Simm's highly regarded guide to climate change and some possible solutions.


Shows how millions in the West are running up huge ecological debts to the third world through over consumption.


"Creative and compelling."
---Guardian



"Essential reading."
---Head of the IPCC



"A new phrase has entered the language."
---Anita Roddick



This is the second edition of Simms's highly-regarded guide to ecological debt shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts.



The book explores a great paradox of our age: how the global wealth gap was built on ecological debts, which the world's poorest are now having to pay for. Highlighting how and why this has happened, he also shows what can be done differently in the future. Now updated throughout, this is a clear and passionate account of the steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.

Arvustused

'A master at progressive thinking' -- New Scientist 'An ebullient driving force,' listed as one of the UK's top environmentalists by the Independent on Sunday -- Independent on Sunday '(A) leading industry observer' -- Financial Times 'Creative and compelling' -- Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, Guardian 'Essential reading' -- R K Pachauri, Ph.D, Director-General, TERI, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 'A new phrase has entered the language' -- Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop 'This book describes the world as it really is. ... Read it, find out who really owes what to whom' -- Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth

Acknowledgements vi
Preface to the Second Edition viii
A Short Walk to Venus
1(13)
The Chemist's Warning: a Short History of Global Warming
14(16)
The Heaven Bursters: Tuvalu and the Fate of Nations
30(20)
The Great Reversal of Human Progress
50(20)
Ecological Debt
70(23)
The Carbon Debt
93(17)
Rationalising Self-destruction (Or Why People Are More Stupid Than Frogs)
110(14)
The Car Park at the End of the World
124(17)
Pay Back Time: the Law, Climate Change and Ecological Debt
141(14)
Data for the Doubtful: the Lessons of War Economies
155(10)
The New Adjustment
165(15)
Minerva's Owl
180(10)
In the Footsteps of Stanley
190(13)
Tick Tock Climate Clock
203(24)
The Ducks' Choice
227(25)
How to Live on an Island
252(26)
Notes 278(26)
Index 304
Andrew Simms is the author of many books including The New Economics, Ecological Debt, Tescopoly and Cancel the Apocalypse and Economics: A Crash Course. He co-founded the New Weather Institute and coordinates the Rapid Transition Alliance. He is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (NEF), and is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and BBC. He co-founded the Green New Deal group in 2007, the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org that ran until 2017, and devised Earth Overshoot Day.