Carbon colonialism : how rich countries export climate breakdown / Laurie Parsons.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Parsons, Laurie (Lecturer in human geography), author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greenhouse gas mitigation--Political aspects.

Greenhouse gas mitigation.

Globalization--Environmental aspects.

Globalization.

Climatic changes--Political aspects.

Climatic changes.

Physical Description:

vi, 236 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2023.

Summary:

Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant progress on climate change. World leaders are queuing up to proclaim their commitment to tackling the climate crisis, pointing to data that shows the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is still warming at a record rate, with devastating effects on poverty and precarity in the world's most vulnerable communities. Are we being deceived? Climate change is devastating the planet, and globalisation is hiding it. This book opens our eyes. Carbon colonialism explores the murky practices of outsourcing a country's environmental impact, where emissions and waste are exported from rich countries to poorer ones; a world in which corporations and countries are allowed to maintain a clean, green image while landfills in the world's poorest countries continue to expand, and droughts and floods intensify under the auspices of globalisation, deregulation and economic growth. Taking a wide-ranging, culturally engaged approach to the topic, the book shows how this is not only a technical problem, but a problem of cultural and political systems and structures - from nationalism to economic logic - deeply embedded in our society. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Moving forwards, or dumping sideways? The myth of a sustainable future

Part I: Greenwashing the global factory

Founding the global factory: the first five hundred years

Consumer power in the global factory: a lucrative illusion

Carbon colonialism: hidden emissions in the global periphery

Part II: Manufacturing disaster in the global factory

Climate precarity: how global inequality shapes environmental vulnerability

Money talks: who gets to speak for the environment and how

Wolves in sheep's clothing: how corporate logic co-opts climate action

Six myths that fuel carbon colonialism

and how to think differently.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Penn Libraries Book Prize in Sustainability - Shortlist, 2024.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Parsons, Laurie (Lecturer in human geography). Carbon colonialism.

ISBN:

9781526169181

1526169185

OCLC:

1373398798