economics of climate change
Is technology the answer to everything – or might humans need to learn restraint?
Climate change driven by consumer economics — population growth — war — and the rest. Is more of the same the cure? Or is it time for fundamental change in our world-view as a species. And is there any chance of that? And how?
“Resistance is Futile”!
As long as people keep breeding like animals, we will live and die like them too. I like to dream that the future Human race will learn to control that instinct. Maybe after the coming pandemics and natural disasters cull the world population back the survivors will learn.
The Economics of Climate Change in Southeast Asia: A Regional Review
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The Changing Climate of Global Warming
$14.99 Our climate has been changing since the beginning of time. In recent years, technology allows us to quantify these changes and make predictions of the future. However, economic and political forces complicate the science.The documentary explores the journey of discovery from both local and global perspectives of climate change. A balanced panel of world renown scientists discuss and debate the ... |
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PLANETARY PREDICAMENT
$19.95 An Edutainment Seminar concerning the difficulties that our planet Earth is now experiencing--including: CLIMATE CHANGE, ECONOMIC RECESSION, TERRORISM, EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS, POLITICAL CORRUPTION, PROPHETIC MESSAGES...and more. There are 5 sections which facilitate use of time for workshops & classes....and to permit ease of selecting parts to study. Each section focuses upon issues presented in P... |
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2008 Global Conference: Green Is Green: Remaking Business in the Age of Sustainability
$29.95 In a world increasingly focused on climate change and sustainability, businesses are finding that going green is not only good for their image -- it's also good for their bottom line. What are businesses doing to become environmentally sensitive? Are they simply engaged in "greenwashing," or are they making serious efforts? What's real in terms of helping the environment and what's just empty PR h... |
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Winter Kill - War With China Has Already Begun
$3.99 In Gene Skellig's terrifyingly plausible military techno-thriller, Winter Kill - War With China Has Already Begun, you will be immediately drawn into the strong characters of this richly detailed adventure. As the pace accelerates, you will become wrapped up in the action at the local level. At the same time, your thirst for the economic, geopolitical and military context of the war will be thorou... |
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The Great Disruption: Why the Climate Crisis Will Bring On the End of Shopping and the Birth of a New World
$25.00 It's time to stop just worrying about climate change, says Paul Gilding. We need instead to brace for impact because global crisis is no longer avoidable. This Great Disruption started in 2008, with spiking food and oil prices and dramatic ecological changes, such as the melting ice caps. It is not simply about fossil fuels and carbon footprints. We have come to the end of Economic Growth, Version... |
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Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America
$0.90 Book Description Thomas L. Friedman’s phenomenal number-one bestseller The World Is Flat has helped millions of readers to see the world in a new way. In his brilliant, essential new book, Friedman takes a fresh and provocative look at two of the biggest challenges we face today: America’s surprising loss of focus and national purpose since 9/11; and the global environmental crisis, w... |
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Climate Change in Canada (Paperback)
$19.75 A significant number of Canadians believe that climate change is the biggest threat facing the world today. Climate change is now more than a scientific debate; it is a matter urgently discussed in the realms of politics, geography, and economics. Rodn... |
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The Governance of Climate Change (Paperback)
$24.7 Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is i... |
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The Governance of Climate Change (Hardcover)
$66.33 Climate change poses one of the greatest challenges for human society in the twenty-first century, yet there is a major disconnect between our actions to deal with it and the gravity of the threat it implies. In a world where the fate of countries is i... |
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The Economics of Climate Change and the Change of Climate in Economics (Hardcover)
$121.45 Description not available. |
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Greenhouse Governance (Paperback)
$31.68 "Examines national and international laws and institutions governing human-mediated climate change. Issues examined include public perceptions and economic effects of climate change and policies to mitigate it, renewable electricity standards, vehicle ... |
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Climate Change and the Sustainable Use of Water Resources (Hardcover)
$273.29 The book explores the geo-chemical, physical, social and economic impacts of climate change on water supplies. It contains examples and case studies from a wide range of countries, and addresses the need to promote sustainable water use across the worl... |
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The Carbon Connection (Hardcover)
$47.73 Description not available. |
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How the West Was Warmed (Paperback)
$13.86 Melting glaciers. Pine beetle infestation. Drought. Carbon footprints. Green jobs and promises of a new energy economy. . . . When the venerable Aspen Skiing Company starts talking about the ?death of snow,? even the most determined deniers start to wo... |
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HarperCollins Student World Atlas (Paperback)
$15.43 Featuring more than 150 pages of maps, this up-to-date reference also provides illustrated coverage of important global issues and geography, as well as information on climate, population, economy, communications, and detailed statistics. |
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Fools Rule (Hardcover)
$16.46 This eloquent, rage-inciting polemic about the global failure to deal with climate change will appeal to readers of Tim Flannery, George Monbiot and Bill McKibben--and anyone concerned with the economic and environmental future of our planet.Ky... |
