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  title info:
    title: Environmental debt
    sub title: the hidden costs of a changing global economy
  name:
    name part: Larkin, Amy.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2013
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 244 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
  abstract: In this book the author, an environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crises. For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal devastation from Hurricane Sandy, rampant wildfires across the West, and groundwater contamination from reckless drilling, it has becoming increasingly clear that yesterday's carefree attitude about the environment has morphed into a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. The author has been at the forefront of the fight for the environment for years, and in this book she argues that the costs of global warming, extreme weather, pollution and other forms of "environmental debt" are wreaking havoc on the economy. Synthesizing complex ideas, she pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest cultural touchstones of the environmental debate, revealing how, for instance, despite coal's relative fame as a "cheap" energy source, ordinary Americans pay $350 billion a year for coal's damage in business related expenses, polluted watersheds, and in healthcare costs. And the problem stretches far beyond our borders: deforestation from twenty years ago in Thailand caused catastrophic flooding in 2011, and cost Toyota 3.4 percent of its annual production while causing tens of thousands of workers to lose jobs in three different countries. To combat these trends, the author proposes a new framework for 21st century commerce, based on three principles: 1) Pollution can no longer be free; 2) All business decision making and accounting must incorporate the long view; and 3) Government must play a vital role in catalyzing clean technology and growth while preventing environmental destruction. As companies and nations struggle to strategize in the face of global financial debt, many busin…
  table of contents: A framework for 21st century commerce -- Environmental debt -- The quest for true profits -- Courage: high risk, high reward -- Moving beyond fossil fuels: the public, private, and individual sectrors -- Extreme weather and the food/water/energy nexus -- The cutting edge of innovation: in the lab, the executive suite, the halls of Congress, and the patent office -- Why don't we? : a transition agenda.
  note: Amy Larkin.
  note: Includes index.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [223]-232) and index.
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Economic policy
  subject:
    topic: Renewable energy sources
  subject:
    topic: Technological innovations
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Economic development
    topic: Environmental aspects
  subject:
    topic: Développement économique
  subject:
    topic: Politique économique
  subject:
    topic: Economie de l'environnement
  subject:
    topic: Changement climatique
  subject:
    topic: Aspects économiques
  subject:
    topic: Innovations technologiques
  classification: HD75.6 .L37 2013
  classification: 333.7
  identifier: 9781137278555
  identifier: 1137278552
  identifier: 2012047885
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 121227
    record change date: 20151205115524.0
    record identifier: in00003337684
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng