ABOUT THE BOOK
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Climate change threatens the future of
civilization, but humanity is impotent in effecting solutions. Even in those
nations with a commitment to reduce greenhouse emissions, they continue to
rise. This failure mirrors those in many other spheres that deplete the fish
of the sea, erode fertile land, destroy native forests, pollute rivers and
streams, and utilize the world`s natural resources beyond their replacement
rate. In this provocative new book, Shearman and Smith present evidence that
the fundamental problem causing environmental destruction—and climate change in
particular—is the operation of liberal democracy. Its flaws and contradictions
bestow upon government—and its institutions, laws, and the markets and
corporations that provide its sustenance—an inability to make decisions that
could provide a sustainable society.
ABOUT Author
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David Shearman is a physician and scientist who has held positions on faculty
at Edinburgh and Yale University Medical Schools and as Mortlock Professor of
Medicine at Adelaide University.
Joseph Wayne Smith is a lawyer and philosopher with a research interest in
environmentalism. He is the author of Global Meltdown (Praeger, 1998) and
Healing in a Wounded World (Praeger, 1997).