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9780773451629

Climate Change As a Crisis in World Civilization : Why We Must Totally Transform How We Live

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  • ISBN13:

    9780773451629

  • ISBN10:

    0773451625

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2008-03-30
  • Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $149.95

Summary

This study examines the scientific evidence relating to "abrupt" or "dangerous" climate change and explores the social, political, legal, and philosophical significance of this evidence. The authors locate the "climate crisis" within the context of a wider crisis of civilization, consisting of a series of converging threats to human survival.

Author Biography

David Shearman is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, University of Adelaide and Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Adelaide's Geographical and Environmental Studies and Law School.

Table of Contents

Foreword
Introduction: the threat of global climatic changep. 1
Global climatic change, human health and the crisis of civilizationp. 11
Economics, technology and law: confronting the climate crisisp. 51
Conservation psychology and human nature: strategies for changep. 91
Wisdom regained: universities and the insitutions of knowledgep. 109
Philosophy, religion and the environmental cursep. 171
Conclusion: values, ethics and the ecology of sustainabilityp. 201
Notesp. 213
Bibliographyp. 309
Indexp. 357
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