Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And Economics Of Climate Change - Softcover

Deutscher, Guy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9811275912 ISBN 13: 9789811275913

Publisher: WSPC, 2023

Synopsis

Climate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate its physical impact on the environment. This failure reveals a lack of interaction between economists and scientists, long separated from an academic standpoint. The separation is artificial. This book shows that the free trade concept of David Ricardo and that of the Sadi Carnot thermodynamic cycle, both developed at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, are amazingly close to each other. The analogy between the two cycles helps understand the fundamental mechanism of free trade. Irreversible processes, such as the release of CO₂ by fossil fuel burning, have increased the Boltzmann entropy level. It has generated climate warming and disorder, a phenomenon accelerated by a growth model largely based on delocalization of industrial production to low wage countries. Major irreversible phenomena such as melting of all arctic ice including the Greenland ice sheets can be expected within 1000 years that can only be avoided by active removal of atmospheric CO₂, whose cost can be calculated based on the entropy laws of Clausius and Boltzmann.

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About the Author

Guy Deutscher is an Emeritus Professor of Physics in Tel Aviv University, Israel. His research interest is in superconductivity and its materials, which brings him to oxides and cermets, as well as novel superconducting tapes for power applications. Prof. Deutscher formerly heads the Gordon Centre for Energy Studies, the Minerva Centre for High Temperature Superconductivity, and the Israel Centre of Excellence on High Temperature Superconductivity. He has also published many books on climate change, and is also an editor for the journal Nanomaterials. His other published books with World Scientific include Entropy and Sustainable Growth, The Entropy Crisis, and New Superconductors.

Edition details

• Publisher: WSPC
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9811275912
• ISBN 13: 9789811275913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168