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Crimes Against Humanity : Climate Change and Trump's Legacy of Planetary Destruction / by Judith Blau.

By: Blau, Judith [author.]Contributor(s): Taylor and FrancisMaterial type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (178 pages) : 17 illustrations, text file, PDFContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780429458040Subject(s): Climatic changes -- Political aspects | Climatic changes -- Government policy | Global warming | International crimes | Human rights | Agroecology | American Exceptionalism | American Individualism | Climate Action | Competitive Individualism | Deforestation | Ecology | Environmentalism | Environmental Justice | Environmental Politics | Environmental Studies | Food Security | Food Sovereignty | Foreign Diplomacy | Fossil Fuels | Global Affairs | Global Justice | Global Warming | Human Rights | International Affairs | International Politics | Paris Agreement | Renewable Energy | Social Policy | Sustainability | Sustainable DevelopmentGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification: 363.738/74 LOC classification: QC981.8 | .G56Online resources: Click here to view. Also available in print format.
Contents:
--Introduction -- -- Climate Change: What It Is and Why It Matters -- Why Paris is Very, Very Important -- From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals to COP21 and the Paris Agreement -- What are Human Rights? -- Food a Human Right? Or Commercial Product? -- The Peasant Farmers Were Right All Along -- How Bad Can It Get -- Rising Seas and Tiny Countries -- Proposals and Solutions -- We Are All in the Same Canoe -- Concluding Remarks -- --Appendix I. List of online resources for climate change -- Appendix II.Reducing Our Own Carbon Footprint
Abstract: The authoris a sociologist who has written extensively on human rights and recently on climate change. In her new book she develops the idea that protecting everyone's human rights and slowing planetary warming are the same goals. It is now clear that the leader of the richest, most powerful country in the world - United States President Donald J. Trump - has set the trigger of destruction by exempting the United States from the international treaty that aims to give the entire planet some reprieve from warming. That is, all countries of the world have entered into an agreement to end reliance on fossil fuels, except the United States, which withdrew at the outset of the Trump Administration. Regardless of theUS position in the future, the country's emissions are so very extremely high they will continue to wreck havoc on the entire world. While Blau maintains that President Trump has committed a crime against Humanity, evenbeyond his tenure the book sets the stage for a human rights approach to climate change for the future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

--Introduction -- -- Climate Change: What It Is and Why It Matters -- Why Paris is Very, Very Important -- From the Millennium Development Goals to the Sustainable Development Goals to COP21 and the Paris Agreement -- What are Human Rights? -- Food a Human Right? Or Commercial Product? -- The Peasant Farmers Were Right All Along -- How Bad Can It Get -- Rising Seas and Tiny Countries -- Proposals and Solutions -- We Are All in the Same Canoe -- Concluding Remarks -- --Appendix I. List of online resources for climate change -- Appendix II.Reducing Our Own Carbon Footprint

The authoris a sociologist who has written extensively on human rights and recently on climate change. In her new book she develops the idea that protecting everyone's human rights and slowing planetary warming are the same goals. It is now clear that the leader of the richest, most powerful country in the world - United States President Donald J. Trump - has set the trigger of destruction by exempting the United States from the international treaty that aims to give the entire planet some reprieve from warming. That is, all countries of the world have entered into an agreement to end reliance on fossil fuels, except the United States, which withdrew at the outset of the Trump Administration. Regardless of theUS position in the future, the country's emissions are so very extremely high they will continue to wreck havoc on the entire world. While Blau maintains that President Trump has committed a crime against Humanity, evenbeyond his tenure the book sets the stage for a human rights approach to climate change for the future.

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