Delmars Dictionary of Digital Printing Publishing or Ecological Debt

Delmar's Dictionary of Digital Printing & Publishing

Author: Frank Romano

This comprehensive dictionary of terms offers the graphic communicator more than 6,000 definitions of terms used in the most crucial 80% of digital printing, publishing and the graphic communications world. The only book of its kind, it puts digital terminology and how it relates to the rest of the industry at the fingertips of the reader. It includes all disciplines, including printing, photography, imaging, networking, recorded media, electronic publishing, bindery, graphics, computers, and related fields, and their relationship to digital technology.

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Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet and the Wealth of Nations

Author: Andrew Simms

"Creative and compelling."
---Guardian



"Essential reading."
---Head of the IPCC



"A new phrase has entered the language."
---Anita Roddick



This is the second edition of Simms's highly-regarded guide to ecological debt shows how millions of us in the West are running up huge ecological debts: from the amount of oil and coal that we burn to heat our houses and run our cars, to what we consume and the waste that we create, the impact of our lifestyles is felt worldwide. Whilst these debts go unpaid, millions more living in poverty in the majority world suffer the burden of paying dubious foreign financial debts.



The book explores a great paradox of our age: how the global wealth gap was built on ecological debts, which the world's poorest are now having to pay for. Highlighting how and why this has happened, he also shows what can be done differently in the future. Now updated throughout, this is a clear and passionate account of the steps we can take to stop pushing the planet to the point of environmental bankruptcy.

Table of Contents:

1	A short walk to Venus	1
2	The chemist's warning : a short history of global warming	14
3	The heaven bursters : Tuvalu and the fate of nations	30
4	The great reversal of human progress	50
5	Ecological debt	70
6	The carbon debt	93
7	Rationalising self-destruction (or why people are more stupid than frogs)	110
8	The car park at the end of the world	124
9	Pay back time : the law, climate change and ecological debt	141
10	Data for the doubtful : the lessons of war economies	155
11	The new adjustment	165
12	Minerva's owl	180