Dead Heat
Globalization and Global Warming (OMP)
$20.00
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 August 2011
Summary
Today’s “extreme weather events” (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.Dead Heat argues that justice-not rhetoric and “aid” but real developmental justice for the people of developing world-is go…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781583224779 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1583224777 |
| Author: | Tom Athanasiou, Paul Baer |
| Publisher: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Imprint: | Seven Stories Press,U.S. |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 August 2011 |
| Weight: | 163g |
| Dimensions: | 177mm x 127mm |
| Series: | Open Media |
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“A fine and ferocious writer… Al Gore should read [this] book.” - The New York Times Book Review
About The Author
Tom Athanasiou
TOM ATHANASIOU is a longtime green activist and technology critic, and the author of dozens of essays on environmental and techno-scientific politics. In 1996, his first book was published-in the United States as Divided Planet- The Ecology of Rich and Poor, and in England as Slow Reckoning- The Ecology of a Divided Planet. His interests focus on class division and distributive justice within finite environmental spaces.PAUL BAER is a Ph.D. candidate in the Energy and Resources Group at the University of Calfornia, Berkeley. His research in the area of ecological economics focuses on both ecological and economic modeling and on the equity implications of various climate policy alternatives.
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