Heat, Greed and Human Need: Climate Change, Capitalism and Sustainable Wellbeing
By Ian Gough.
Description
'There are few scholarly books about climate change that take the issue of the distribution of its costs, and of the costs and benefits of its mitigation, as seriously as their absolute value. This is probably the best of those books that I have come across. Rigorously rooted in Gough's earlier work on theories of human need, the book is relentless in its pursuit of equity in respect of climate change and responses to it. Not everyone will agree with all its conclusions - for example that ''green capitalism merits the term contradiction'' - but they are unfaili...
ISBN(s)
1785365126, 9781785365126