From the Journal of Political Ecology, Philip Pattberg (Vrije): Conquest, Domination and Control: Europe’s Mastery of Nature in Historic Perspective. From Theory & Science, Arran Gare (SUT): The Semiotics of Global Warming: Combating Semiotic Corruption. Can anyone stop it? Bill McKibben reviews Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist's Guide to Global Warming by Bjorn Lomborg; Break Through: From the Death of Environmentalism to the Politics of Possibility by Ted Nordhaus and Michael Shellenberger; What We Know About Climate Change by Kerry Emanuel; and Climate Change: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren. Basic economics tells us that when you tax something, you normally get less of it. So if we want to reduce global emissions of carbon, we need a global carbon tax. Q.E.D.
