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Citizenship is now a key battleground in the fight over the direction of personal and political morality, domestic and global policy, social justice and the spread of violence across the world. Market Citizenship: Experiments in Democracy and Globalization offers a compelling account of the past and future of citizenship. Drawing on a rich fund of empirical material, author Amanda Root analyzes a new paradigm of social relations: market citizenship.
Environmental Protection and Economic Growth?
Environmental Protection and Economic Growth?
Introduction
It is no longer particularly fashionable to dismiss the idea of climate change.1 In the past 15 years evidence has been amassed and points incontrovertibly — at least according to many of the world’s leading scientists — to changes in weather patterns. Over 400 reputable experts on the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change and elsewhere believe that these alterations are linked to uniquely high levels of carbon dioxide being found in the earth’s atmosphere. Carbon dioxide is now approximately 380 parts per million in the world’s air (McKee, 2004), a concentration in volume that has not occurred before in the history of the world. Nowadays most reputable scientists do not believe this to be a random ...
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