The Carbon Footprint Wars: What Might Happen If We Retreat From Globalization? »

Stuart Sim is professor of critical theory emeritus at the University of Sunderland and visiting professor of English at the University of Northumbria in Newcastle. He is the author of twenty-five books, eight of which have been translated into seventeen languages. With a background in critical theory, literary studies, and philosophy, Sim's work is interdisciplinary in nature and has consistently been commended by reviewers for its range as well as its accessibility. In 2002, Sim was elected a fellow of the English Association.

Climate change is acknowledged to be the major problem facing the human race, and the need to reduce our carbon footprint becomes ever more urgent as the scientific predictions of the effects of climate change become increasingly dire. Whether we are fully aware of the social and political consequences of striving for a significant reduction is more questionable. The Carbon Footprint Wars identifies the many dangers inherent in the projected solutions& mdash;such as retreating from the spread of globalization, the current socio-economic paradigm for world trade. The war of words that is being waged over the appropriate way to deal with our collective carbon footprint has critical implications for us all. Stuart Sim examines the issues in detail, raising questions about the assumptions being made on both sides of the climate change divide. He argues that we must urgently address the problem of how to engineer the best possible trade-off between economic survival and ecological disaster& mdash;and he puts forward some radical suggestions about how we should set about doing so.