Boiling Point How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis -- and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

Name: Boiling Point How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis -- and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster
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ISBN: 9780465027620

ISBN-10: 0465027628

ISBN-13: 9780465027620

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ross Gelbspan

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If left unchecked, climate change will ultimately supersede every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions-denial and delay-has now grown into a crime against humanity. The fossil fuel industry is directing the Bush administration's energy and climate policies. But they're not the only ones to blame: both the media and environmental activists have unwittingly worsened the crisis. Gelbspan offers a set of specific policy strategies to address these problems-solutions that not only take on the climate crisis, but that could provide a global project to begin to mend a profoundly fractured world. Both a passionate call-to-arms and a thoughtful…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Basic Books
Publication date: 11/8/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.660
Language: English



Preface to the Paperback Edition


Preface


Acknowledgments



Not Just Another Issue


Snapshots of the Warming No. 1



The Sum of All Clues


Snapshots of the Warming No. 2



Criminals Against Humanity


Snapshots of the Warming No. 3



Bad Press


Snapshots of the Warming No. 4



Three Fronts of the Climate War


Snapshots of the Warming No. 5



Compromised Activists


Snapshots of the Warming No. 6



Thinking Big: Three Beginnings


Snapshots of the Warming No. 7



Rx for a Planetary Fever


Notes