Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations, Edition 2

· Pluto Books
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About this ebook

Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide.

Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts. Ecological Debt explores this great paradox of our age. Highlighting how and why this has happened, it also shows what can be done differently in the future.

Now updated throughout, this is a passionate account of the steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.

About the author

Andrew Simms is an analyst, campaigner and co-director of the New Weather Institute. He is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy at the University of Sussex and Fellow at the New Economics Foundation. Over several years he has written groundbreaking reports on issues ranging from debt, trade, aid, and big business, to biotechnology and climate change. He is the author of Ecological Debt (Pluto, 2005).

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