Carbon Colonialism: How rich countries export climate breakdown

Laurie Parsons

doi:10.7765/9781526169198

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 show the progress they have made. Yet the atmosphere is warming at a record rate. Arctic sea ice is reaching record low levels. Climate-linked poverty and precarity are rapidly increasing. Why, then, are the green achievements of the rich world not matched by the reality on the ground? As this book argues, the complexity of our globalised economy allows our worst environmental impacts to happen out of sight and out of mind. Rich nations’ environmental footprints are now primarily generated overseas, where limited regulation makes it increasingly easy to conceal. The result is a system of carbon colonialism, in which emissions, waste and environmental degradation are exported from rich countries to poor ones as the price of economic growth.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

1 - Moving forwards, or dumping sideways? The myth of a sustainable future
pp 1-22

Part I - Greenwashing the global factory
pp 23-24

2 - Founding the global factory: the first five hundred years
pp 25-47

3 - Consumer power in the global factory: a lucrative illusion
pp 48-75

4 - Carbon colonialism: hidden emissions in the global periphery
pp 76-98

Part II - Manufacturing disaster in the global factory
pp 99-100

5 - Climate precarity: how global inequality shapes environmental vulnerability
pp 101-123

6 - Money talks: who gets to speak for the environment and how
pp 124-151

7 - Wolves in sheep’s clothing: how corporate logic co-opts climate action
pp 152-175

8 - Six myths that fuel carbon colonialism – and how to think differently
pp 176-207

Notes
pp 208-227

Index
pp 228-236

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