Summary Of Let Them Eat Carbon
In Let Them Eat Carbon, Sinclair repeatedly stresses that the attempts politicians and governments are making to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are very expensive and generally ineffective. Ordinary families pay a heavy price for the attempts governments make to control emissions, as they increase electricity bills, raise the price of gasoline, and put manufacturing jobs at risk. This issue hits certain people particularly hard: industrial worker, as they are already struggling to compete with rivals in countries with lower labour costs, the poor and the elderly who feel these increasing energy costs strongly, and anyone with a big family who needs to drive their kids around because they do not live in a city centre. At the other end of the scale, politicians who do not need to drive vast distances because of their central location, and have above average incomes, will not feel the strain of these increasing costs to the same degree, and would easily underestimate the extent of the pressure on average household budgets. Sinclair scrutinizes how much of the money invested into the energy cutting schemes end up in the pockets of an array of special interests, as climate change has slowly turned into a business rather than an
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Regardless, those policies, and the argument that Sinclair is attempting to convey relates well to the nature ephemeral point of view, as it sees nature as fragile, and it would not respond well to human-made disturbances nor will it return to its natural state (Poortinga, Steg and Vlek 2002). The myths of nature can be applied to Sinclair’s perception of greenhouse effect, global warming, and climate change. This would mean that a person with a nature ephemeral perception would speak of global warming as a dreadful conflict upon which states and organizations across the world must act, otherwise nature will be seriously disturbed beyond
Regardless, those policies, and the argument that Sinclair is attempting to convey relates well to the nature ephemeral point of view, as it sees nature as fragile, and it would not respond well to human-made disturbances nor will it return to its natural state (Poortinga, Steg and Vlek 2002). The myths of nature can be applied to Sinclair’s perception of greenhouse effect, global warming, and climate change. This would mean that a person with a nature ephemeral perception would speak of global warming as a dreadful conflict upon which states and organizations across the world must act, otherwise nature will be seriously disturbed beyond