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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454813103321

Autore

Sim Stuart

Titolo

Carbon footprint wars [[electronic resource] ] : what might happen if we retreat from globalization? / / Stuart Sim

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh, : Edinburgh University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-282-13658-5

9786612136580

0-7486-3767-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

363.73874

Soggetti

Global warming

Climatic changes - Environmental aspects

Climatic changes - Government policy

Globalization - Economic aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [215]-223) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Part I The Problems; 1 Introduction The Carbon Footprint Wars: What is at Stake?; 2 Global Warming: The Evidence For; 3 Global Warming: The Arguments Against; 4 The Globalization Paradigm: Defenders and Detractors; Part II The Solutions; 5 Reducing Our Carbon Footprint: Altering Lifestyles; 6 Living With Our Carbon Footprint: The Technological Response; Part III The Consequences; 7 Worst-Case Scenarios:Economic; 8 Worst-Case Scenarios:Socio-Political; 9 Worst-Case Scenarios: Technological and Environmental

Part IV Reassessing Global Priorities10 Reconstructing Geopolitical Relationships: The Ethical Dimension; 11 Reconstructing Geopolitical Narratives: A Radical Democratic Globe?; 12 Conclusion: Survival, Disaster, Trade-Off; Postscript; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 b