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Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Inspired by Thomas Paine's classic, Common Sense, Frances Beinecke provides a concise account of what is at stake in the climate change debate. The impact of global climate change extends beyond environmental destruction. She challenges all Americans to demand a clean and sustainable energy future before it is too late. Doing so will help put Americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil, and create a healthier planet, for ourselves and...
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"Few issues today excite more passion or alarm than the specter of climate change. In A Climate of Crisis, historian Patrick Allitt shows that our present climate of crisis is far from exceptional. Indeed, the environmental debates of the last half century are defined by exaggeration and fearmongering from all sides, often at the expense of the facts."-- From dust jacket flap.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In the past few years, it has become impossible (for most) to deny the effects of climate change and that the planet is warming, and to acknowledge that we must act. But a new kind of denialism is taking root in the halls of power, shaped by a quarter-century of neoliberal policies, that threatens to doom us before we've grasped the full extent of the crisis. As Kate Aronoff argues, since the 1980s and 1990s, economists, pro-business Democrats and...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"A new lockdown to "save" the climate. That’s what’s in store for us if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the Democrats pass their radical climate plan—the Green New Deal. It is packed with guarantees so completely irrelevant to the problem it purports to "solve" (like "free college" and incomes for everyone "unable or unwilling to work") that even its boosters have admitted it’s not really about the climate...Climate change has already been "solved"...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Explores how researchers, scientists, and activists have struggled to raise awareness of the dangers of global warming and encourage politicians to take legal measures to control the factors that contribute to global warming before it is too late.
Author
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
In The Climate War, Eric Pooley-deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek-does for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale of an American civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of the most important players in the struggle to cap global warming pollution-a fight in which trillions of dollars and the fate of the planet are at stake. Why has it been...
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