Carbon colonialism : how rich countries export climate breakdown /
Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant progress on climate change. World leaders are queuing up to proclaim their commitment to tackling the climate crisis, pointing to data that shows the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is still warming at a record rate, with dev...
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
[2023].
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Table of Contents:
- Moving forwards, or dumping sideways? The myth of a sustainable future
- Part I: Greenwashing the global factory
- Founding the global factory: the first five hundred years
- Consumer power in the global factory: a lucrative illusion
- Carbon colonialism: hidden emissions in the global periphery
- Part II: Manufacturing disaster in the global factory
- Climate precarity: how global inequality shapes environmental vulnerability
- Money talks: who gets to speak for the environment and how
- Wolves in sheep's clothing: how corporate logic co-opts climate action
- Six myths that fuel carbon colonialism-- and how to think differently.