The Climate Change Challenge and the Failure of Democracy

by David Shearman and Joseph Wayne Smith

Book Overview

This provocative book presents compelling evidence that the fundamental problem behind environmental destruction--and climate change in particular--is the operation of liberal democracy.

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031334504X
• ISBN13: 9780313345043
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.6"