SAVED BY DISASTER? ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE, POLITICAL INERTIA AND THE POSSIBILITY OF AN INTERGENERATIONAL ARMS RACE1

Future Ethics: Climate Change and Apocalyptic Imagination

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 83-106

  Gardiner, Stephen M ^a  

^a University of Washington   (United Kingdom)

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