Review
“Giddens’ is a simple message, argued with great clarity and power, that brings a new dimension to the debate.”Book of the week in the Times Higher Education “As well as providing a useful summary of a number of current debates in climate change policy – from the robustness of carbon markets and green taxes through to the role of government in fostering new technological solutions – Giddens makes a powerful contribution to the emerging debate.”Progress “How do you create, maintain and renew majorities that encourage people, organisations and institutions to behave responsibly and well, especially when they have become accustomed to behaving irresponsibly and badly? This key question … underlies everything in Anthony Giddens’ important new book, The Politics of Climate Change. Giddens is clear that politicians make things worse by the tactic – much used by Brown in the economic field too – of simultaneously dramatising the threat and then pretending (more…)
