The Carbon Footprint Wars
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The Carbon Footprint Wars

What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization?

  1. 241 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Carbon Footprint Wars

What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization?

About this book

Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem currently facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more urgent as the scientific predictions of the effects of climate change become increasingly dire. Whether we are fully aware of the social and political consequences of striving for a significant reduction is more questionable. The Carbon Footprint Wars identifies the many dangers inherent in the projected solutions - such as retreating from the spread of globalization, the current socio-economic paradigm for world trade. The war of words that is being waged over the appropriate way to deal with our collective carbon footprint has critical implications for us all. Stuart Sim examines the issues in detail, raising questions about the assumptions being made on both sides of the climate change divide. He argues that we must urgently address the problem of how to engineer the best possible trade-off between economic survival and ecological disaster - and he puts forward some radical suggestions about how we should set about doing so.Key Features*Challenges current policies about how to deal with global warming, outlining their potentially disastrous side-effects on society and the environment*Brings out the political complexities of the links between globalization and global warming*Provides a wide variety of case studies*Calls for a radical re-think of West-Third World relations

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Copyright
  3. Contents
  4. Acknowledgements
  5. Preface
  6. Part I The Problems
  7. 1 Introduction The Carbon Footprint Wars: What is at Stake?
  8. 2 Global Warming: The Evidence For
  9. 3 Global Warming: The Arguments Against
  10. 4 The Globalization Paradigm: Defenders and Detractors
  11. Part II The Solutions
  12. 5 Reducing Our Carbon Footprint: Altering Lifestyles
  13. 6 Living With Our Carbon Footprint: The Technological Response
  14. Part III The Consequences
  15. 7 Worst-Case Scenarios:Economic
  16. 8 Worst-Case Scenarios:Socio-Political
  17. 9 Worst-Case Scenarios: Technological and Environmental
  18. Part IV Reassessing Global Priorities
  19. 10 Reconstructing Geopolitical Relationships: The Ethical Dimension
  20. 11 Reconstructing Geopolitical Narratives: A Radical Democratic Globe?
  21. 12 Conclusion: Survival, Disaster, Trade-Off
  22. Postscript
  23. Notes
  24. Bibliography
  25. Index