Contents -- 1 A Short Walk to Venus -- 2 The Chemist's Warning: a Short History of Global Warming -- 3 The Heaven Bursters: Tuvalu and the Fate of Nations -- 4 The Great Reversal of Human Progress -- 5 Ecological Debt -- 6 The Carbon Debt -- 7 Rationalising Self- destruction ( Or Why People Are More Stupid Than Frogs) -- 8 The Car Park at the End of the World -- 9 Pay Back Time: the Law, Climate Change and Ecological Debt -- Data for the Doubtful: the Lessons of War Economies -- The New Adjustment -- Minerva's Owl -- Notes -- Index.