Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming
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...
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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. Dead Heat isn't simply about understanding the political and social arguments about giobal warming, it's about winning them.
Preface: Our Problem, and Yours9Ch. 1An Introduction14Ch. 2The Science Chapter29Ch. 3From Temperature Targets to Emissions Budgets50Ch. 4Justice and Development63Ch. 5A Per Capita Climate Accord76Ch. 6Trading, Taxes, and Funds98Ch. 7The Future of the Climate Protection Coalition115Ch. 8Globalization and Global Warming126Ch. 9Three Futures137Ch. 10A New Last Words145Resources150Notes159Index166About the Authors175
