Ecological Debt by Andrew Simms
Millions of people in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts. Ecological Debt explores this great paradox of our age. Highlighting how and why this has happened, it also shows what can be done differently in the future. Now updated throughout, this is a passionate account of the steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.
'A master at progressive thinking' -- New Scientist
'An ebullient driving force,' listed as one of the UK's top environmentalists by the Independent on Sunday -- Independent on Sunday
'(A) leading industry observer' -- Financial Times
'Creative and compelling' -- Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, Guardian
'Essential reading' -- R K Pachauri, PhD, Director-General, TERI, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
'A new phrase has entered the language' -- Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
'This book describes the world as it really is. ... Read it, find out who really owes what to whom' -- Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
'An ebullient driving force,' listed as one of the UK's top environmentalists by the Independent on Sunday -- Independent on Sunday
'(A) leading industry observer' -- Financial Times
'Creative and compelling' -- Larry Elliott, Economics Editor, Guardian
'Essential reading' -- R K Pachauri, PhD, Director-General, TERI, Chairman of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
'A new phrase has entered the language' -- Dame Anita Roddick, founder of The Body Shop
'This book describes the world as it really is. ... Read it, find out who really owes what to whom' -- Tony Juniper, Executive Director, Friends of the Earth
Andrew Simms is the author of many books including The New Economics, Ecological Debt, Tescopoly and Cancel the Apocalypse and Economics: A Crash Course. He co-founded the New Weather Institute and coordinates the Rapid Transition Alliance. He is a research associate at the Centre for Global Political Economy, University of Sussex, a fellow of the New Economics Foundation (NEF), and is a frequent contributor to the Guardian and BBC. He co-founded the Green New Deal group in 2007, the climate campaign onehundredmonths.org that ran until 2017, and devised Earth Overshoot Day.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780745327273 |
| ISBN 10 | 0745327273 |
| Title | Ecological Debt |
| Author | Andrew Simms |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pluto Press |
| Year published | 2009-02-20 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
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