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1 online resource (xi, 292 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Preface -- Introduction : Survival means renewal / Mark Levene and David Cromwell -- pt. 1. Big picture -- 1. Case for contraction and convergence / Aubrey Meyer -- pt. 2. State and its apparatus -- 2. Thinking the worst : the Pentagon Report / Dave Webb -- 3. Preparing for mass refugee flows : the corporate military sector / Steve Wright -- 4. Climate change and the political process : consequences for government action in Britain / James Humphreys -- pt. 3. Critical players -- 5. First they blocked, now do they bluff? Corporations respond to climate change Melanie Jarman -- 6. Mostly missing the point : business responds to climate change / David Ballard -- 7. Mass media, climate change, and how things might be / John Theobald and Marianne McKiggan -- 8. Having the information, but what do you then do with it? The scientific and academic communities / Jonathan Ward -- 9. Asleep on their watch : where were the NGOs? / George Marshall -- pt. 4. Challenge ahead -- 10. Clearing the pathways to transformation / Susan Ballard and David Ballard -- 11. Averting climate change : the need for enlightened self-interest / Jim Scott -- Afterword : Where do we go from here? / Mayer Hillman -- appendix 1. A layperson's glossary of the global politics of climate change / Tim Helweg-Larsen and Jo Abbess -- appendix 2. Climate-related groups and other relevant websites -- Notes on contributors -- Index. |
| Summary |
An insightful and inspiring collection of essays from some of the foremost thinkers on climate change. Not to be missed.' Mark Lynas, author of High Tide (Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2004) 'A visionary and hopeful book -- an essential survival guide in turbulent times.' Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England Climate change is a pressing reality. From hurricane Katrina to melting polar ice, and from mass extinctions to increased threats to food and water security, the link between corporate globalisation and planetary blowback is becoming all too evident. Governments and business keep reassuring the public they are going to fix the problem. This book brings together some leading activists who disagree. They expose the inertia, denial, deception -- even threats to our civil liberties -- which comprise mainstream responses from civil and military policy makers, and from opinion formers in the media, corporations and academia. An epochal change is called for in the way we all engage with the climate crisis. Key to that change is Aubrey Meyer's proposed 'Contraction and Convergence' framework for limiting global carbon emissions. This book, which also includes contributions by Mayer Hillman and George Marshall, is a powerful and vital guide to how mass mobilisation can avert the looming catastrophe. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Climatic changes.
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Climatic changes. |
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Climatic changes -- Government policy.
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Climatic changes -- Government policy. |
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
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Climatic changes -- Social aspects. |
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Climatic changes -- Prevention.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Cromwell, David, 1962-
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Levene, Mark, 1953-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Surviving climate change. London ; Ann Arbor, MI : Pluto, 2007 9780745325682 (DLC) 2008295567 (OCoLC)154769370 |
| ISBN |
9781849643306 (electronic book) |
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184964330X (electronic book) |
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1281188581 |
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9781281188588 |
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