Spanish Translation Of Economic Planning In An Age Of Climate Crisis Published

A Spanish translation of the book Economic Planning in an Age of Climate Crisis by William Paul Cockshott, Allin Cottrell and Jan Philipp Dapprich has been published by Trotta Editorial.

A summary of the book’s arguments can be found below:

This book is devoted to two topics that have been subject to pro- found political controversy: climate change and economic plan- ning. The reality of anthropogenic climate change and the feasibility of economic planning have both been subject to vehement attack from the right wing. The possibility that humans might change the climate by burning fossil fuels was recognised by the Swedish scientist Svante Arrhenius in the last decade of the 19th century, but at that time it was anticipated that it would be many centuries before the effect would be visible. From measurements started in the 1957 international geophysical year it became evident that carbon dioxide levels were really rising. Through the 196os it became a matter of increasing concern in the scientific community. When one of the authors attended first-year physics lectures at a North American college in the late 1960s global warming due to carbon dioxide emission was already being taught as accepted scientific knowledge. It took considerably longer for politicians to take notice.

You can find out more about the Spanish translation of the book here, while you can find out more about the original English edition of the book here.