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xii, 244 pages : 25 cm In this book the author, an environmental activist and social entrepreneur exposes the link between our financial and environmental crises. For decades, politicians and business leaders alike told the American public that today's challenge was growing the economy, and that environmental protection could be left to future generations. Now in the wake of billions of dollars in costs associated with coastal devastation from Hurricane Sandy, rampant wildfires across the West, and groundwater contamination from reckless drilling, it has becoming increasingly clear that yesterday's carefree attitude about the environment has morphed into a fiscal crisis of epic proportions. The author has been at the forefront of the fight for the environment for years, and in this book she argues that the costs of global warming, extreme weather, pollution and other forms of "environmental debt" are wreaking havoc on the economy. Synthesizing complex ideas, she pulls back the curtain on some of the biggest cultural touchstones of the environmental debate, revealing how, for instance, despite coal's relative fame as a "cheap" energy source, ordinary Americans pay $350 billion a yea

Who reads Environmental Debt : the Hidden Costs of a Changing Global Economy?

Author

Larkin, Amy

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781137278555

Category

science

Subjects

Economics, Fiction, Management

Rating

3.78 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13