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Given that private vehicle use, air travel, and housing selection are three of the most greenhouse-gas intensive consumption choices individuals can undertake, the same dollar in the hands of an ultrawealthy person may well cause more greenhouse gas emissions than a dollar in the hands of a poor person.
Ways Not to Think About Climate Change
Kysar, Doug
Mak-
ing development ‘investible’ requires a two-pronged strategy: (a) reorient
the fiscal and monetary arm of the state into de-risking development as-
set classes, to ensure steady cash flows for investors; (b) re-engineer local
financial systems in the image of US market-based finance to allow port-
folio investors easy entry into, and exit from, new asset classes. Thus, the
WSC marks a new moment in capitalist accumulation, from what David
Harvey (2003) termed ‘accumulation by dispossession’ to accumulation by
de-risking.
The Wall Street Consensus
Daniela Gabor
Habermas suggests that democracy may not apply to all realms of decision making. This, of course, remains a contested theory. But the fact that one of the leading political theorists of our time has decided that the evidence suggests that the complexity of modern societies poses constraints on the full democratization of societal decision making calls to attention the seriousness of the question.
Citizens, Experts, and the Environment - The Politics of Local Knowledge
Frank Fischer
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