Carbon inequality : the role of the richest in climate change / Dario Kenner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kenner, Dario, author.

Series:

Routledge focus on environment and sustainability

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wealth--Environmental aspects.

Wealth.

Consumption (Economics)--Environmental aspects.

Consumption (Economics).

Affluent consumers.

Climatic changes--Social aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

138 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

London : New York ; Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.

Summary:

With a specific focus on the United States and the United Kingdom, Carbon Inequality studies the role of the richest people in contributing to climate change via their luxury consumption and their investments. In an innovative contribution, it attempts to quantify personal responsibility for shareholdings in large fossil fuel companies. This book explores the implications of the richest people's historic responsibility for global warming, the impacts of which affect them less than most others in global society. Kenner analyses how the richest people running large oil and gas companies have successfully used their political influence to lobby the US and UK government. This assessment of their growing political power is particularly pertinent at a time of increasing inequality and growing public awareness of the impact of climate change. The book also highlights the crucial role of the richest in blocking the low-carbon transition in the US and the UK, exploring how this could be countered to ensure fossil fuels are fully replaced by renewable energy. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and policy makers with an interest in inequality, climate change and sustainability transitions.

Contents:

Introduction: climate change and the role of the richest

The carbon footprint of luxury consumption

The investment emissions of the polluter elite

The polluter elite and moral responsibility

The decisive political influence of the polluter elite

Destabilising the polluter elite

Conclusions

Appendix 1

Appendix 2

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographies references and index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Kenner, Dario, author. Carbon inequality

ISBN:

9780815399223

0815399227

OCLC:

1097365957