A best seller in France, and already translated into Spanish, Italian, Greek, and Korean, Herve Kempf?s How the Rich Are Destroying the Earth now appears in its first English edition. Bringing to bear more than twenty years of experience as an environmental journalist, Kempf describes the invincibility that many of the world?s wealthy feel in the face of global warming, and how their unchecked privilege is thwarting action on the single most vexing problem facing our world.In this important primer on the link between global ecology and the global economy, Kempf makes the following observations: First, that the planet?s ecological situation is growing ever worse, despite the efforts of millions of engaged citizens around the world. And second, despite environmentalists? emphasis that "we?re all in the same boat," the world?s economic elites?who continue to benefit by plundering the environment?have access to "lifeboats" that insulate them from the resulting catastrophes.Societies have...
