出版社:American Sociological Association Section on Political Economy of the World System
摘要:Carbon dioxide is understood to be intensity across the range of countries in the the most important greenhouse gas believed global stratification system is identifi ed and to be altering the global climate. Th is article discussed. Ordinary Least Sq uares regression applies world-system theory to environmental suggests that the least e. cient consumers damage. An analysis of 154 countries examines of fossil fuels are some countries within the the contribution of both position in the world semi-periphery and upper periphery, spe-economy and internal class and political forces cifically those nations which are high export-in determining a nation's CO. intensity. CO. ers, those highly in debt, nations with higher intensity is defined here as the amount of military spending, and those with a repressive carbon dioxide released per unit of economic social structure. output. An inverted U distribution of CO