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Carter, Peter D. (Environmentalist)
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
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Carter, Peter D. (Environmentalist)
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
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Unprecedented crime :
climate
science denial and game changers for survival / by Peter D. Carter, Elizabeth Woodworth ; foreword by James E. Hansen.
by
Carter, Peter D. (Environmentalist)
Clarity Press, Inc., 2018.
Call #:
363.738745 C324u
Subjects
Intergovernmental
Panel
on
Climate
Change
.
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
ISBN:
9780998694733 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
Climate
science denial and game changers for survival
Description:
269 p. : col. ill.; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Foreword : criminality, indeed / by James E. Hansen -- Introduction -- Part I. Crimes against life and humanity. Extreme weather around the world -- Science betrayed : the crime of denial -- State crime against the global public trust -- Media collusion -- Corporate and bank crime -- Moral collapse and religious apathy -- Part II. Game changers for survival. Energy subsidies and tax reform -- Human rights based legal challenges -- Game changers in technology & innovation -- Market leadership -- Civil resistance strategies -- Mission impossible -- Science appendix : evidence of the
climate
emergency -- Epilogue.
Summary:
In 2017, the heat waves, extreme wild fires, and flooding around the world confirmed beyond doubt that
climate
disruption is now a full-blown emergency. We have entered Churchills (3z(Bperiod of consequences(3y(B, yet governments have simply watched the disasters magnify, while rushing ahead with new pipelines and annual trillions in fossil fuel subsidies. Governments simply cannot say they did not know. The events we are seeing today have been consistently forecast ever since the First Assessment by the
Intergovernmental
Panel
on
Climate
Change
, which was signed by all governments back in 1990, which The Lancet has described as the best research project ever designed. Unprecedented Crime first lays out the culpability of governmental, political and religious bodies, corporations, and the media through their failure to report or act on the
climate
emergency. No emergency response has even been contemplated by wealthy high-emitting national governments. Extreme weather reporting never even hints at the need to address
climate
change
. It then reports how independently of governments, scores of proven zero- carbon game changers have been coming online all over the world. These exciting technologies, described in the book, are now able to power both household electricity and energy-dense heavy industry. We already have the technical solutions to the CO2 problem. With these solutions we can act in time to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to near-zero within 20 years. These willful crimes against life itself by negligent governments, oblivious media and an insouciant civil society are crimes that everyday citizens can nonetheless readily grasp and then take to the streets and to the courts to protest on behalf of their children and grand-children. This thoroughly researched and highly-documented book will show them how.
Other authors:
Woodworth, Elizabeth, 1943-
Hansen, James E. (James Edward), 1941-
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