Moonie Buddhist Catholic: A Spiritual Odyssey

Case, Thomas W.

White Horse Pr

Counting the Cost of Global Warming

<p>Since the last ice age, when ice enveloped most of the northern continents, the earth has warmed up by about five degrees. Within a century, it is likely to warm by another four or five, because of the greenhouse gases that we are dumping into the atmosphere. This will have immense and mostly harmful effects on the lives of people not yet born. How much should the present generation be prepared to pay to mitigate these harmful effects? How much should we sacrifice for the sake of the future?<br>In Counting the Cost of Global Warming, John Broome surveys the ways in which economists and philosophers have tackled the question of our responsibility to future generations, with special reference to the economic and ethical issues raised by the threat of global warming. His conclusions on the extent to which we are entitled to 'discount' the long term future make essential reading for economists, philosophers and social scientists who are concerned with policy in this vital area.</p>

Business & Money

Broome, John

Economics

Ethics, Religion and Biodiversity: Relations Between Conservation and Cultural Values

Pacific Science Congress 1991 (Honolulu, Hawaii)

Religion & Spirituality

This is a collection of essays showing that concerns about climate change are far from being a uniquely modern phenomenon. It traces the origins of environmental debates about soil erosion, deforestation, and climate change in the writings of early colonial administrators, doctors and missionaries. The author traces what is known and what can be inferred about El Nino events centuries before the devastating 1997/1998 effects. In a concluding essay he analyzes the general significance of "marginal" land and its ecology in the history of popular resistance movements.

Ecology, Climate and Empire: Colonialism and Global Environmental History, 1400-1940

Grove, Richard

Foremost in Scottish Hebridean tradition are the tales of the sea-folk - seals who could assume human form, but could not return to the sea without their sealskin belts. Against the background of such beliefs, the fact of strange people in kayaks being occasionally seen around the islands off the north and west of Scotland was probably not worth special mention, until travellers from the mainland heard of these sightings in the 17th and 18th centuries. This study draws together historical fact and maritime folklore to reveal some spellbinding mysteries of the ocean, involving seals and kayaks, Norse ancestry and "the children of the seal".

Seal-Folk and Ocean Paddlers: Sliochd Nan Ron

History

MacAulay, John M.

Europe

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