Economics and Climate Emergency
Economics and Climate Emergency This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current…
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Economics and Climate Emergency
This book explores a series of connected themes focused on the role economics and other influential forms of theory and thinking have played in creating the current predicament and the scope for alternatives and how they might be framed.Thirty years have passed since the inception of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) and the beginning of policy on climate change. To most politicians, long-term collective interest has been denominated in meaningless units of time, a never and forever that has continually delayed action. Thirty wasted years.
The next decade is a pivotal period requiring fundamental change. From complacency has come potential disaster, and we are now living in a time of climate emergency and ecological breakdown. But numerous impediments remain.
Continual material, energy and economic growth on a planetary scale are manifestly