Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming.

• Author: Wasserman, Harvey
• Position: Brief Article - Book Review

Dead Heat: Global Justice and Global Warming By Tom Athanasiou and Paul Baer Seven Stories Press. 173 pages. $9.95.

In this short but on-target work, Athanasiou and Baer discuss the issue of global warming in the Third World. As China, India, Indonesia, and other hugely populated nations industrialize, we face the prospect of emission levels guaranteed to turn our Earth into a sauna. The trick, say the authors, will be to "drive a rapid process of technology 'leapfrogging' " so these countries can improve...