Converging world : connecting communities in global change / John Pontin and Ian Roderick
- Bib ID:
- 4218662
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Pontin, John
- Description:
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- Totnes : Green, 2007
- 95 p. : col. ill. ; 21 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781903998922
- 1903998921
- Series:
- Schumacher briefing ; no. 13.
- Summary:
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"Converging World has its origin in the principle of 'contraction and convergence', which expresses the need for carbon emissions across the world to converge to an equal per capital level with which the planet can cope through its natural processes. This principle is extended in this Briefing by exploring the central concept of Convergence, which will involve reducing the total ecological footprint of some, while increasing that of others - aiming for equality. It means having an ideal for social justice, as well as economic redistribution and environmental protection. As the pressures of population and consumption are stretching the planet's capacity beyond its limits, this convergence is an urgent necessity for a world that will become increasingly tense, fractious, and for some unbearable. This Briefing explores these ideas, and describes how a new charity, The Converging World, is forming to put the idea of Convergence into action."--BOOK JACKET.
- Full contents:
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- 1. What does Convergence mean?
- 2. The Converging World : the story so far
- 3. Towards Convergence
- 4. A very short history of Convergence
- 5. Convergence as a unifying principle
- 6. A critique of The Converging World.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Roderick, Ian
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
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- Publication date:
- 2007
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