Carbon colonialism
Manchester University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5261-8495-5 (ISBN)
A hard-hitting exposé that reveals how rich countries outsource the climate crisis to poor ones.
Around the world, leading economies are announcing significant success in the struggle against climate change. Heads of government proclaim their commitment to tackling the crisis, pointing to data that shows the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is still warming at a record rate. Are we being deceived?
In Carbon colonialism, Laurie Parsons exposes how rich countries cook the books on climate change – by outsourcing it to the global South. Conducting first-hand research across Asia, he reveals how exporting emissions and waste allows states and corporations to maintain a clean, green image. Meanwhile, landfills expand and droughts and floods intensify, with devastating effects on the world’s most vulnerable communities.
Technical fixes and creative accounting are a mirage. The real obstacles to effective action are deeply embedded in the political systems and structures of our society. Parsons calls on readers to wake up from the fairy tales of greenwashing and ethical consumerism and end carbon colonialism now. -- .
Laurie Parsons is Reader in Human Geography at Royal Holloway, University of London and Principal Investigator of the projects The Disaster Trade: The Hidden Footprint of UK Imports and Investment Overseas and Hot Trends: How the Global Garment Industry Shapes Climate Vulnerability in Cambodia. His other books include Going Nowhere Fast: Inequality in the Age of Translocality (2020) and Climate Change in the Global Workplace (2021). -- .
1 Moving forwards, or dumping sideways? The myth of a sustainable future
Part I: Greenwashing the global factory
2 Founding the global factory: the first five hundred years
3 Consumer power in the global factory: a lucrative illusion
4 Carbon colonialism: hidden emissions in the global periphery
Part II: Manufacturing disaster in the global factory
5 Climate precarity: how global inequality shapes environmental vulnerability
6 Money talks: who gets to speak for the environment and how
7 Wolves in sheep’s clothing: how corporate logic co-opts climate action
8 Six myths that fuel carbon colonialism – and how to think differently
Index -- .
| Erscheinungsdatum | 30.04.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Manchester |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 129 x 198 mm |
| Gewicht | 358 g |
| Themenwelt | Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Technik | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Logistik / Produktion | |
| Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Marketing / Vertrieb | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5261-8495-8 / 1526184958 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5261-8495-5 / 9781526184955 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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