How We Can Save the Planet: Preventing Global Climate CatastropheAn outstanding overview on global warming---and what we can do about it---from a distinguished world-class authority |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Problem | 9 |
Beyond the Planets Limits Climate Change Why How and What Next? | 11 |
As If Theres No Tomorrow Energy Use Past Present and Future | 37 |
Eyes Wide Shut The Response of the General Public | 72 |
Current Strategies | 87 |
Wishful Thinking The Role of Technology | 89 |
Fiddling While Rome Burns What Government Is Doing to Reduce Fossil Fuel Dependence | 126 |
The Blueprint for Survival Contraction and Convergence | 177 |
Fair Shares for All Personal Carbon Allowances | 194 |
Carbon Watchers How to Live Within the Carbon Allowance | 213 |
Conclusions Climate by Negligence or Climate by Choice | 236 |
Postscript | 245 |
Appendix | 267 |
References | 287 |
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Turning the Tanker Around International Negotiations on Climate Change | 162 |
The Solution | 175 |
Biographies | 321 |
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