{"product_id":"climate-change-and-social-inequality-the-health-and-social-costs-of-global-warming-paperback","title":"Climate Change and Social Inequality: The Health and Social Costs of Global Warming - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMerrill Singer\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe year 2016 was the hottest year on record and the third consecutive record-breaking year in planet temperatures. The following year was the hottest in a non-El Nino year. Of the seventeen hottest years ever recorded, sixteen have occurred since 2000, indicating the trend in climate change is toward an ever warmer Earth. However, climate change does not occur in a social vacuum; it reflects relations between social groups and forces us to contemplate the ways in which we think about and engage with the environment and each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEmploying the experience-near anthropological lens to consider human social life in an environmental context, this book examines the fateful global intersection of ongoing climate change and widening social inequality. Over the course of the volume, Singer argues that the social and economic precarity of poorer populations and communities--from villagers to the urban disadvantaged in both the global North and global South--is exacerbated by climate change, putting some people at considerably enhanced risk compared to their wealthier counterparts. Moreover, the book adopts and supports the argument that the key driver of global climatic and environmental change is the global economy controlled primarily by the world's upper class, which profits from a ceaseless engine of increased production for national middle classes who have been converted into constant consumers. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on case studies from Alaska, Ecuador, Bangladesh, Haiti and Mali, \u003ci\u003eClimate Change and Social Inequality\u003c\/i\u003e will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change and climate science, environmental anthropology, medical ecology and the anthropology of global health.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMerrill Singer\u003c\/strong\u003e is Professor in the Departments of Anthropology and Community Medicine at the University of Connecticut, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 248\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.54 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 28, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47487600001202,"sku":"9781138102910","price":93.94,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/3caca8b1628d3fcd59ae0fc9b8cec8c1.webp?v=1779337856","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/climate-change-and-social-inequality-the-health-and-social-costs-of-global-warming-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}