Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming (Open Media) - Softcover

Tom Athanasiou; Paul Baer

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1583224777 ISBN 13: 9781583224779

Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS, 2002

Synopsis

Unusual book

About this title

About the Author:

TOM ATHANASIOU is a longtime green activist and technology critic, and the author of dozens of essays on environmental and techno-scientific politics. In 1996, his first book was published--in the United States as Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, and in England as Slow Reckoning: The Ecology of a Divided Planet. His interests focus on class division and distributive justice within finite environmental spaces.
PAUL BAER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of Calfornia, Berkeley. His research in the area of ecological economics focuses on both ecological and economic modeling and on the equity implications of various climate policy alternatives.

Synopsis:

George W. Bush's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty was openly based on protecting corporate profit, not protecting the public good. But with scientists claiming that pollution must be cut by at least 15 percent by the year 2050 whilst current gas emissions are still rising drastically, something must be done. Thoroughly explaining the environmental problem and the ethical and political constraints on implementing solutions, DEAD HEAT argues that global environmental justice and economic realism must be factored together in order to advance a climate protocol that puts public good before big business.

About this edition

• Publisher: SEVEN STORIES PRESS
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1583224777
• ISBN 13: 9781583224779
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 173