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Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet: Quarterly Essay 44 (Paperback, 44th edition)
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Man-Made World: Choosing between Progress and Planet: Quarterly Essay 44 (Paperback, 44th edition)
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Witnessing at first-hand the failure of the Copenhagen Climate
Conference and wondering what went wrong, Andrew Charlton realised
the truth of a colleague's words: "The world is split between those
who want to save the planet and those who want to save themselves."
In this groundbreaking essay, Charlton discusses the rift that will
shape our future: progress versus planet; rich versus poor. In
recent times environmentalists have argued with mounting force that
the growth of human activity on our planet is unsustainable. We
are, they claim, on a collision course with destiny. But, the
developing world counters, environmental threats, dire as they may
be, are not the only challenges we face. Indeed, these can seem a
distant danger compared to the daily tragedies of life in slums and
villages. Across the globe, economists and environmentalists vie
over who has the right response to climate change, population
growth and food scarcity. In Australia, this battle has plunged our
politics into one of its most tumultuous periods. In Man-Made World
Charlton evaluates some of the proposed solutions -renewable and
nuclear energy, organic and genetically modified food - and argues
that our descendants will only thank us if we find a way to
preserve both the natural world and human progress. "Progress has
its price. Each step of human advancement has left a footprint on
the planet. Today our two defining challenges are managing climate
change and eliminating global poverty. In Copenhagen we learned
that these challenges are inseparable." -Andrew Charlton, Man-Made
World About the Author: Andrew Charlton was senior economic adviser
to the prime minister from 2008 to 2010. During that time he served
as Australia's senior official to the G20 summits and the prime
minister's representative to the Copenhagen Climate Conference. He
previously worked for the London School of Economics, the United
Nations and the Boston Consulting Group and received his doctorate
in economics from Oxford University, where he studied as a Rhodes
Scholar. He is the author of Ozonomics (2007) and Fair Trade for
All (2005), co-written with Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz. This
edition of Quarterly Essay also includes a piece by one of
Australia's leading writers, Richard Flanagan, entitled The
Australian Disease: On the decline of love and the rise of
non-freedom.
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