ECOLOGICAL DEBT: GLOBAL WARMING AND THE WEALTH OF NATIONS (SECOND EDITION)
Book ID/图书代码： 10953008B25186
English Summary/英文概要： Simms shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts. The book explores a great paradox of our age: how the global wealth gap was built on ecological debts, which the world’s poorest are now having to pay for. Highlighting how and why this has happened, he also shows what can be done differently in the future. Now updated throughout, this is a clear and passionate account of the steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 最重視全球環境生態的民間智庫
今年的全球生態負債日(Ecological Debt Day)開始敲警鐘，生態債務日係指人類資源消耗量超過地球的生態承載力。
全世界已經進入生態赤字狀態，生態的破壞正日益嚴重影響人們未來的生活環境。本書作者Andrew Simms為倫敦經濟學政策主任，他所創立的民間智庫新經濟基金會 (New Economics Foundation)，呼籲全世界富有國家和窮窮國家的資源必須重新分配。Andrew Simms認為，目前的現象是富國過度消耗大量資源，卻未見更令人滿意的生活；而數以百萬窮國人民只需少量的能源，生活便可獲得大幅改善。
生態的破壞威脅舉例而言，Andrew認為大賣場的出現扼殺了街坊雜貨店的生機，迫使更多的人必須開車到大賣場大採購。由於愈來愈多的消費者選擇每週到大賣場一次進行採購，開車路途的遙遠，使得汽車二氧化碳排放量增加，更造成環境的破壞。
Andrew Simms在書中提道：「想像我們在吃早餐的時候，拆開一封銀行寄來的信，信裡頭寫的不是常聽到的透支額度，而是我們累積了威脅到這個地球的生態債務。」他建議，現今想要增進人類福址，不該只專注於收入和消費，而是將焦點從量化轉移到生活環境品質的提升；舉凡文化、市政、社區和家庭生活和其他面相，只要能促進長期幸福都是值得努力的領域。(CL)
Awards/获奖情况：歐洲綠黨,美國知名生態經濟學家,英國公正貿易組織 一致推薦
Reviews
’Creative and compelling.’---Guardian
’Essential reading.’ ---Head of the IPCC
’A new phrase has entered the language.’---Anita Roddick
About the Author/作者介绍： Andrew Simms is Policy Director of the New Economics Foundation and a board member of Greenpeace UK. His publications include several books and reports on climate change, globalisation, development issues, debt, corporate accountability, genetic engineering and food security. He is based in London.
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