Other worlds are possible
What does human development look like in a world of climate change? That's the question which the _Up in Smoke?_ coalition have been asking since their first report back in 2004. Now, ahead of the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen, the coalition has brought together some of the developing world's leading thinkers, including Nobel Peace Prize winners Wangari Maathai (Kenya) and R.K. Pachauri (India), and economists Manfred Max-Neef (Chile) and Jayati Ghosh (India) to describe how they see their countries developing in a carbon-constrained world.
What does human development look like in a world of climate change? That's the question which the _Up in Smoke?_ coalition have been asking since their first report back in 2004. Now, ahead of the UN Climate Change talks in Copenhagen, the coalition has brought together some of the developing world's leading thinkers, including Nobel Peace Prize winners Wangari Maathai (Kenya) and R.K. Pachauri (India), and economists Manfred Max-Neef (Chile) and Jayati Ghosh (India) to describe how they see their countries developing in a carbon-constrained world.
The report also highlights examples of development practices which break free of the failed economic orthodoxies, including organic farming in Malawi, clean energy projects in rural India and how small scale farming can help us tackle climate change. With a foreward from Professor Herman Daly, the leading ecological economist from the University of Maryland, _Other Worlds are Possible_ is crucial reading for anyone who cares about human progress in the 21st century.
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