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Global Capitalism and Climate Change

In: Handbook On International Political Economy

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  • Hans A. Baer

    (University of Melbourne, Australia)

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Humans have been emitting greenhouse gases for eons but it was the industrial revolution, with its heavy reliance on fossil fuels and the capitalist system of production and consumption, that contributed most clearly to a new type of climate change — one not generated by natural events so much as by human-induced or anthropogenic activities. As archaeologists like Fagan (2008, p. xvii) say, "[W]e've entered a time of sustained warming, which dates back to at least 1860s, propelled in large part by humanity — by the greenhouse gases from fossil fuels"…

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  • Hans A. Baer, 2012. "Global Capitalism and Climate Change," World Scientific Book Chapters, in: Ralph Pettman (ed.), Handbook On International Political Economy, chapter 23, pages 395-414, World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd..
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    1. Baer, Hans A., 2016. "The nexus of the coal industry and the state in Australia: Historical dimensions and contemporary challenges," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(C), pages 194-202.
    2. Shaikh Mohammad Kais & Md Saidul Islam, 2023. "Climate Change, Ecological Modernization, and Disaster Management: The Coastal Embankment Project in Southwestern Bangladesh," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(12), pages 1-20, June.

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