Extreme environment
Subtitle: how environmental exaggeration harms emerging economies
By: Ivo Vegter
Publisher: Zebra Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 321
ISBN-13: 9781770223646
Subjects: Environmental degradation; Environmental economics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-312) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: exaggeration, sensationalism and age-old neuroses; title: David versus Goliath: the rise of the fracking controversy; title: Fracking: a light on scary nightmares; title: Fracking: crying wolf; title: Umami: the good taste; title: Many people died, but not at Fukushima; title: The Caribbean: reports of my death were greatly exaggerated; title: Fun with facts and fallacies; title: The last resort: climate change; title: The church of Gaia; title: Exaggeration makes us poorer.