The Carbon Footprint Wars: What Might Happen If We Retreat from Globalization? - Couverture rigide

Sim, Stuart

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0748637664 ISBN 13 : 9780748637669

Editeur : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

Synopsis

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

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Stuart Sim is recently retired Professor of Critical Theory in the English Department at the University of Sunderland (2008), and currently Visiting Professor in the English Department at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle (2009- ). He is an experienced author with 25 books to his name, as well as numerous book chapters, journal articles, and journalistic pieces. His work, including 8 of his books, has been translated into a total of 17 languages. With a background in critical theory, literary studies, and philosophy, Prof. Sim's work is interdisciplinary in nature and has consistently been commended by reviewers for its range as well as its accessibility. Prof. Sim was elected a Fellow of the English Association in 2002.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Edinburgh University Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0748637664
• ISBN 13: 9780748637669
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible