State in Fear

Tomorrow Press, Melbourne, 2006. Reprint. Softcover. Very Good Condition. The text is illustrated with three maps at the beginning of the text. Photographic paperback binding with dark blue coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. In this fictional account, the tiny Pacific Island nation of Tuvalu – a tiny island nation of five atolls with a total land area of 26 km² scattered across 900,000 square kilometres of the Pacific, with above sea height of less than 10 cm – who sue the United States for failing to sign the Kyoto protocol, and thereby increasing the greenhouse gases causing global warming and thereby rising sea levels; and, the death of their nation within 50 years due to said rising sea levels. "... A substantial payout for Tuvalu would allow the population to escape the drowning country by relocating elsewhere. A loss to the US might mean a series of crippling lawsuits from other low-lying states around the world also threatened by inundation. The struggle for environmental justice between the world's most powerful and least powerful nations is conducted in a US court room, in the media, in the United Nations and finally in Tuvalu itself. In a case that Tuvalu is widely expected to lose, the results are surprising ...." from rear panel blurb. Minor rubbing to the book corners and panels. Size: Trade Paperback. [12], 13 - 376 pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: Fiction; Global Warming; Conservation; Tuvalu; Environment & Ecology. ISBN: 0646459570. ISBN/EAN: 9780646459578. Inventory No: 0123152. . 9780646459578