Ecological debt : global warming and the wealth of nations / Andrew Simms.

Author/creator Simms, Andrew
Format Book
Edition2nd ed.
Publication InfoLondon ; New York, NY : Pluto Press, 2009.
Descriptionxiv, 318 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Global warming and the wealth of nations
Contents A short walk to Venus -- The chemist's warning : a short history of global warming -- The heaven bursters : Tuvalu and the fate of nations -- The great reversal of human progress -- Ecological debt -- The carbon debt -- Rationalising self-destruction (or why people are more stupid than frogs) -- The car park at the end of the world -- Pay back time : the law, climate change and ecological debt -- Data for the doubtful : the lessons of war economies -- The new adjustment -- Minerva's owl -- In the footsteps of Stanley -- Tick tock climate clock -- The ducks' choice -- How to live on an island.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 278-303) and index.
ISBN9780745327273 (pbk.)
ISBN0745327273 (pbk.)
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ISBN0745327281 (hbk.)