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

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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 mo...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Musil, Robert K (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
Temas:
Carbon dioxide > Physiological effect.
Climatic changes > United States.
Global warming > Health aspects.
Global warming.
Green movement.
SCIENCE / General.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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