ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book provides a broad background picture of the scientific, political and economic issues relating to the enhanced Greenhouse Effect. It explores the development of climate change as an international policy concern. The book describes some context to the enhanced Greenhouse Effect in terms of economic and scientific approaches to pollution. It focuses on the connections between developed industrial economies and pollution. The book provides the context within which the issues concerning the enhanced Greenhouse Effect fall. It provides an interdisciplinary perspective which pulls together science, economics and ethics. The book focuses on some insight into how human society in general and economics in particular has come to the point of discussing the optimal extinction of species and the extent to which current humans prefer more global climatic experimentation to reducing their rate of material consumption.
