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Hope for a Heated Planet : How Americans Are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future / Robert K Musil.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2008]Copyright date: ©2009Description: 1 online resource (280 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813546230
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.738/74 22
LOC classification:
  • QC981.8.G56 M876 2009eb
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1. Understanding Climate Change: A Public Health Approach -- 2. Home, Home on the Range: Climate Change in the United States -- 3. The Power of the Carbon Lobby -- 4. Framing and Talking about Global Warming -- 5. Assessing the Big Greens: Start Over or Build from Strength? -- 6. The New Climate Movement -- 7. Where Do Emissions and Energy Come From? -- 8. Energy Futures -- 9. Creating Hope: What You Can Do -- 10. Hope for a Heated Planet: Policy and Politics -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Summary: Rejecting cries of gloom and doom, Hope for a Heated Planet shows how the fight against global warming can be won by the grassroots efforts of individuals. Robert K. Musil, who led the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, explains that a growing new climate movement can produce unprecedented change-in the economy, public health, and home-while saving the planet. Musil draws on personal experience and compelling data in this practical and rigorous analysis of the causes and cures for global warming. The book presents all the players in the most pressing challenge facing society today, from the massive fossil fuel lobby to the enlightened corporations that are joining the movement to "go green." Musil thoroughly explains the tremendous potential of renewable energy sources-wind, solar, and biofuel-and the startling conclusions of experts who say society can do away entirely with fossil fuels. He tells readers about the engaged politicians, activists, religious groups, and students who are already working together against climate change. But the future depends, Musil insists, on what changes ordinary citizens make. Through personal choices and political engagement, he shows how readers can cut carbon emissions and create green communities where they live. With practical and realistic solutions, Hope for a Heated Planet inspires readers to be accountable and enables them to usher in an age of sustainability for future generations.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Introduction -- 1. Understanding Climate Change: A Public Health Approach -- 2. Home, Home on the Range: Climate Change in the United States -- 3. The Power of the Carbon Lobby -- 4. Framing and Talking about Global Warming -- 5. Assessing the Big Greens: Start Over or Build from Strength? -- 6. The New Climate Movement -- 7. Where Do Emissions and Energy Come From? -- 8. Energy Futures -- 9. Creating Hope: What You Can Do -- 10. Hope for a Heated Planet: Policy and Politics -- NOTES -- INDEX -- ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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Rejecting cries of gloom and doom, Hope for a Heated Planet shows how the fight against global warming can be won by the grassroots efforts of individuals. Robert K. Musil, who led the Nobel Peace Prize-winning organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, explains that a growing new climate movement can produce unprecedented change-in the economy, public health, and home-while saving the planet. Musil draws on personal experience and compelling data in this practical and rigorous analysis of the causes and cures for global warming. The book presents all the players in the most pressing challenge facing society today, from the massive fossil fuel lobby to the enlightened corporations that are joining the movement to "go green." Musil thoroughly explains the tremendous potential of renewable energy sources-wind, solar, and biofuel-and the startling conclusions of experts who say society can do away entirely with fossil fuels. He tells readers about the engaged politicians, activists, religious groups, and students who are already working together against climate change. But the future depends, Musil insists, on what changes ordinary citizens make. Through personal choices and political engagement, he shows how readers can cut carbon emissions and create green communities where they live. With practical and realistic solutions, Hope for a Heated Planet inspires readers to be accountable and enables them to usher in an age of sustainability for future generations.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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