| THE GLOBAL DEAL Climate Change and the Creation of a New Era of Progress and Prosperity Nicholas Stern New York: PublicAffairs, April 2009 |
Rating: 5.0 High |
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| ISBN-13 978-1-58648-669-3 | ||||
| ISBN-10 1-58648-669-1 | 248pp. | HC/GSI | $26.95 | |
| Page 6: | "Further, in straightened times, energy efficiency will appear even more important." |
| Spelling: S/B "straitened". (Goof by the American editor?) |
| Page 7: | "This is emphatically not a blueprint in the sense of a master plan of the kind that used to emerge from planning commissions in centrally planned economics." |
| Spelling: S/B "economies". |
| Page 36: | "And as for the minority on the left, climate change and the battle against poverty are inextricably linked." |
| Poor phrasing: S/B "climate change is inextricably linked to the battle against poverty". |
| Page 36: | "Enlightened self-interest from those involved in hydrocarbons should lead to the support of technologies enabling the clean use of hydrocarbons, such as carbon capture and storage, and not to defend deniers and cranks." |
| Word choice: S/B "defending" or "the defense of" or best of all, "supporting". |
| Page 38: | "Put crudely, there are probably too few hydrocarbons to sustain growth for more than a century, and certainly more than enough to fry the planet." |
| Is "Put crudely" a pun? Also, poor word choice: I would change "and" to "but". |
| Page 57: | "It is not easy to estimate the overall scale of mitigation likely to arise from temperature increases of 3 or 4°C or above, but given what we are already seeing at comparitively small temperature increases it is likely to be immense." |
| Word choice: S/B "migration". |
| Page 59: | "A similar story of information, infrastructure, and community action can be seen in the dykes, dams, and canals of the Netherlands, around a quarter of which is below sea level..." |
| I suppose this is English spelling; for America, S/B: S/B "dikes". |
| Page 75: | "Action on climate change requires the current generation to make decisions about the reallocation of resources that will have profound implications for future generations, for distribution within generations, including those living now, and for the planet and its entire species." |
| Poor phrasing: S/B "and its entire panoply of species". |
| Pages 118-9: | "If we realise our actions could kill, we might curtail them — drink-driving, for example, has decreased not only because incentives (punishments) were put in place to take account of the externalities (dangers), but also because we understood that it is irresponsible behaviour." |
| Another Britishism, I assume: S/B "drunk driving" for Americans. |
| Page 123: | "No doubt different countries and communities will take different decisions; indeed diversity and its associated learning has its advantages." |
| Number error: S/B "have their". |
| Page 134: | "As part of its efforts to reduce its direct carbon footprint, Marks & Spencer is utilising food waste, to create renewable electricity which is being used to power some of its stores." |
| Comma out of place: S/B "utilising food waste to create renewable electricity, which". |
| Page 135: | "...Drax (sometimes nicknamed 'Drax the Destroyer after a comic boy character), has repeatedly been the target..." |
| Word choice: S/B "a comic book character". (Dictation? |
| Page 168: | "In other words, a government in a country where trees stand, be it central, regional, or local, would agree a contract to achieve certain results and the flows would be linked to those results." |
| I think this is a Britishism; but if I'm wrong, there's a word missing: S/B "would agree to a contract". |
| Page 179: | "The national costs of meeting their own targets might be of the order of 2% of GDP most of which would come directly from private consumption and investment..." |
| Missing comma: S/B "GDP, most". |
| Page 179: | "An expenditure on climate security as a global threat, of one-tenth of that on security from external threats from other nations does not look excessive given the dangers." |
| Missing comma: S/B "nations, does". |
| Page 198: | "For example, international law on trade disputes have resolution mechanisms..." |
| Number error: S/B "laws". |
| Page 198: | "Nevertheless, international collaboration and diplomacy has commonly had an element of these broad and implicit trade-offs." |
| Number error: S/B "have". |
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