The claim of globalization critics that the income gap to industrial countries is bound to widen for essentially all developing countries as a consequence of economic globalization is in conflict with empirical evidence. Economic performance differs tremendously across developing countries. We...

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...