The Gnat Is Older than Man

Why are globe-spanning environmental problems on the rise and what can be done about them? Christopher Stone presents a concise and balanced overview of the risks, from climate change and ozone depletion to deforestation and biodiversity loss. Exploring the institutional framework, Stone shows why global problems do not always benefit from "global solutions," how environmental diplomacy has to account for the growing tensions between rich and poor nations, and why even checking population growth would not heal the planet. Stone's latest work, at once theoretical and realistic, is a major contribution to our understanding of one of humanity's greatest challenges.

Preface
Acknowledgments
Diagnosis: The Earth Has Cancer, and the Cancer Is Man
In the Doctor's Judgment
Diagnosis at Rio
A Second, Less Foreboding Opinion
Prognosis: Social Choice in the Face of Uncertainty
The Condition of the Earth from the Legal Perspective
Astronaut and Diplomat
A Nation's Abuse of Its Own Environment
Transboundary Pollution
The Preventive Techniques
The Reactive Techniques
Consensual Transboundary Pollution
Managing the Global Commons
A Nation's "Internal" Activities Damaging the Commons
A Nation's Activities on the Commons Damaging the Commons
A Nation's Activities on the Commons Damaging Another Nation
Treaties as Antidotes
The Virtues of a Treaty-Based Approach
The Impediments to Treaty Formation
Under What Circumstances are International Negotiations Likely to Succeed?
The Economist's Prescriptions: Taxes and Tradable Permits
The Economic Ideal
Institutionalizing the Economic Ideal
Pro Rata Cutbacks
Effluent Taxes
Tradable Emissions Permits
Medicating the Earth: Preventatives and Remedies
Need Our Responses Be Fully Global?
Is Prevention Better than Cure?
The Deferred, Go-It-Alone Policy as a Second-Best Strategy
A Review of the Home-Grown Remedies
The New Generation of Legislation
Taking Out Calamity Insurance
The Application of Conventional Insurance to Climate Change
Modes of Government Participation
The International Precedents and Prospects
Alternative "Insurance"
Paying the Bills: Toward a Global Commons Trust Fund
The Global Financing Options
The Global Commons Trust Fund
Financing Options in the Light of Domestic Policy Alternatives
The Virtues and Vices of Global Funds: The Donors versus the "Democrats"
The Spiritual and Moral Dimensions of the Environmental Crisis: Of Humankind and Gnats
The Spiritual Roots of the Environmental Crisis
The Moral Dimensions
What Does an Environmental Ethic Aim For?
The Arguments against an Environmental Ethic
The Burdens an Environmental Ethic Faces
One Further Level of Abstraction: The Metaphysical Underpinnings
Notes
Index to Topics and Institutions
Index to Authors
Index to Conventions
Index to Legal Cases
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