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The suicidal planet : how to prevent global climate catastrophe / Mayer Hillman with Tina Fawcett and Sudhir Chella Rajan.
Van Pelt Library QC981.8.G56 H55 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hillman, Mayer.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Global warming--Prevention.
- Global warming.
- Global warming--Government policy.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007.
- Summary:
- An outstanding overview of global warming--and solutions to the global crisis--from a distinguished world-class authority.
- Contents:
- Beyond the planet's limits : climate change : why, how, and what next?
- As if there's no tomorrow : energy use : past, present, and future
- Eyes wide shut : the response of the general public
- Wishful thinking : the role of technology
- Fiddling while Rome burns : what government is doing to reduce fossil fuel dependence
- Turning the tanker around : international negotiations on climate change
- The blueprint for survival : contraction and convergence
- Fair shares for all : personal carbon allowances
- Carbon watchers : how to live within the carbon allowance
- Conclusions : climate by negligence or climate by choice.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [265]-278) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0312353553
- 9780312353551
- OCLC:
- 71552500
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- Publisher description
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