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...

The economic problem -- No wealth but life : a brief history of the new economics -- Measurement : why is an apparently poor Pacific island hit the top of the happy planet index? -- Money : why did China pay for the Iraq War? -- Markets : why has London traffic always travelled at 12mph? -- Life...