Judith Blau

Crimes Against Humanity (eBook, PDF)

Climate Change and Trump's Legacy of Planetary Destruction

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In the author's 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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. September 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429856556
• Artikelnr.: 53998178

Autorenporträt

Judith Blau is Professor Emerita in the sociology department at the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill, and was director of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Human Rights Center, which provided programs and services for refugees and immigrants. She served on the board of the North Carolina American Civil Liberties and was president of Sociologists without Borders, an international nongovernment organization, and the Southern Sociological Society. She formerly edited Social Forces, and several of her past publications are about human rights, with others focusing on climate change, architecture, and race.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. 1. Climate Change: What It Is and Why It Matters. 2. Why
Paris is Very, Very Important. 3. From the Millennium Development Goals to
the Sustainable Development Goals to COP21 and the Paris Agreement. 4. What
are Human Rights? 5. Food a Human Right? - Or Commercial Product? 6. The
Peasant Farmers Were Right All Along. 7. How Bad Can It Get. 8. Rising Seas
and Tiny Countries. 9. Proposals and Solutions. 10. We Are All in the Same
Canoe. 11. Concluding Remarks. Appendix I. List of online resources for
climate change. Appendix II. Reducing Our Own Carbon Footprint.