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During 1990-2001, only 0.6 per cent of additional global income per capita contributed to reducing poverty below the $1-a-day line, down from 2.2 per cent during 1981-1990, and barely half the poor’s share of global income. Coupled with the constraints on global growth associated with climate...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface to the Second Edition -- 1. A Short Walk to Venus -- 2. The Chemist's Warning: a Short History of Global Warming -- 3. The Heaven Bursters: Tuvalu and the Fate of Nations -- 4. The Great Reversal of Human Progress -- 5. Ecological Debt -- 6. The...