Ecological Debt Global Warning and the Wealth of Nations

by Simms, Andrew

• ISBN13: 9780745327273
• ISBN10: 0745327273
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-03-15
• Publisher: UCP

Summary

This is the second edition of Andrew Simm's occlaimed expose of ecological debt, now substantially revised and updated.

Author Biography

Andrew Simms is policy director of nef (new economics foundation), the award winning independent British think-and-do tank. He went to the London School of Economics, led campaigns for several major aid and development agencies and was one of the original organisers of the Jubilee 2000 debt campaign. He is a regular commentator in the national press and broadcast media, and is on the board of Greenpeace UK and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Europe. Over several years he has written groundbreaking reports on issues ranging from debt, trade, aid, and big business, to biotechnology, and climate change.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. vi
Preface to the Second Edition	p. viii
A Short Walk to Venus	p. 1
The Chemist's Warning: a Short History of Global Warming	p. 14
The Heaven Bursters: Tuvalu and the Fate of Nations	p. 30
The Great Reversal of Human Progress	p. 50
Ecological Debt	p. 70
The Carbon Debt	p. 93
Rationalising Self-destruction (Or Why People Are More Stupid Than Frogs)	p. 110
The Car Park at the End of the World	p. 124
Pay Back Time: the Law, Climate Change and Ecological Debt	p. 141
Data for the Doubtful: the Lessons of War Economies	p. 155
The New Adjustment	p. 165
Minerva's Owl	p. 180
In the Footsteps of Stanley	p. 190
Tick Tock Climate Clock	p. 203
The Ducks' Choice	p. 227
How to Live on an Island	p. 252
Notes	p. 278
Index	p. 304
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