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Ecological debt : global warming and the wealth of nations /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Simms, Andrew
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York, NY : Pluto Press, 2009.
Edition:	2nd ed.
Subjects:	Environmental economics. Environmental protection > Citizen participation. Consumption (Economics) > Environmental aspects. Global warming. Environmental justice.

Table of 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.