Dead Heat: Globalization and Global Warming (OMP)

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George W. Bush's refusal to sign the Kyoto treaty was openly based on protecting corporate profit, not protecting the public good. With scientists claiming that pollution must be cut by 15 percent while current gas emissions are still rising drastically, something must be done. 'Dead Heat' explains the environmental problem, the ethical and political constraints on implementing solutions, and argues that global environmental justice and economic realism must be factored together in order to advance a climate protocol that puts public good before big business.

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"A fine and ferocious writer... Al Gore should read [this] book." - The New York Times Book Review

Author Bio

Tom Athanasiou has been writing about global environmental justice for years, and, since finishing his first book, Divided Planet: The Ecology of Rich and Poor, has focused increasingly on global warming. Paul Baer is a scientist and, specifically, an ecological-economic modeller. Together, they are the cofounders and co-ordinators of EcoEquity, a new organisation founded to campaign for a climate treaty based on equal per-capita rights to the atmospheric condition.