Dead Heat
Subtitle: Global Justice and Global Warming
Edition: A Seven Stories Press 1st Ed edition
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Published: June 15, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 128
ISBN-13: 9781583224779
Subjects: Global warming; Politics/International Relations; International Relations - General; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Weather; History / United States / 20th Century; Globalization; Environmental Science; Economic aspects; Government policy; Pollution; Current Affairs
Description: "Today's record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and floods foreshadow an increasingly unstable future. The Bush Administration, meanwhile, has chosen to reject the Kyoto Protocol, deny the consequences of oil dependency, and define the politics of oil as the politics of military domination and war. Still, the science is clear: if we don't drastically reduce our greenhouse pollution, we'll soon suffer catastrophic climatic change, and the poor among us will suffer the most.

Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer argue that only a social justice approach can shape the necessary compromise between the North and the South, and cut a path to sustainability on a planet riven with explosive national, ideological, and class divides."--BOOK JACKET.