Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And Econom... - 9789811275913

Climate Debt, The: Combining The Science, Politics And Economics Of Climate ChangeAuthor(s): Guy Deutscher\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, Singapore\nImprint: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd\nISBN-13: 9789811275913, 978-9811275913\nSynopsis\nClimate warming and disorder are the consequence of a free trade economic growth model that has failed to anticipate its physical impact on the environment. This failure reveals a lack of interaction between economists and scientists, long separated from an academic [url] separation is artificial. This book shows that the free trade concept of David Ricardo and that of the Sadi Carnot thermodynamic cycle, both developed at the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, are amazingly close to each other. The analogy between the two cycles helps understand the fundamental mechanism of free trade. Irreversible processes, such as the release of CO? by fossil fuel burning, have increased the Boltzmann entropy leve.