Hell and High Water: Global Warming--the Solution and the Politics--and What We Should Do
by Joseph Romm
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Global warming is the story of the twenty-first century. It is the most serious issue facing the future of humankind, but American energy and environmental policy is driving the whole world down a path toward global catastrophe. According to Joseph Romm, we have ten years, at most, to start making sharp cuts to our greenhouse gas emissions, or we will face disastrous consequences. The good news, he writes, is that there is something we can do--but only if the leadership of the U.S. show more government acts immediately and asserts its influence on the rest of the world.Hell and High Water is nothing less than a wake-up call to the country. It is a searing critique of American environmental and energy policy, and a passionate call to action by a writer with a unique command of the science and politics of climate change. show lessTags
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Romm's summary of the problem of global warming is not the best out there, his focus is too centered on the United States, and the links between his proposed solutions and the gravity of the problem are weak at best.
But his book is the only one that has a firm grasp of the politically feasible, and if the U.S. get their act together and do something about global warming, the policies they will enact will probably follow along Romm's blueprint, and this political pragmatism is the book's great advantage over others of its kind.
But his book is the only one that has a firm grasp of the politically feasible, and if the U.S. get their act together and do something about global warming, the policies they will enact will probably follow along Romm's blueprint, and this political pragmatism is the book's great advantage over others of its kind.
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Dr. Joseph Romm is one the country's most influential communications on climate science and solutions. Romm is Chief Science Advisor for the Years of Living Dangerously series, which won the 2014 Emmy Award for Outstanding Nonfiction Series. He is the founding editor of Climate Progress, which New York Times columnist Tom Friedman called "the show more indispensable blog." In 2009, Time named him one of its "Heroes of the Environment," calling him "the Web's most influential climate-change blogger." In 2009, Rolling Stone put Romm on its list of 100 "people who are reinventing America." Romm was Acting Assistant Secretary of Energy in 1997, where he oversaw $1 billion in low-carbon technology development and deployment. He is a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress and holds a Ph.D. in physics from MIT. show less
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- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 363.73874 — Society, Government, and Culture Social problems and social services Public Safety - Police, Crime Investigation Environmental Issues - Pollution, Recycling, Global Warming Pollution Pollutants by source Fumes, gases, smoke Greenhouse gases
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- QC981.8 .G56 .R66 — Science Physics Physics Meteorology. Climatology Climatology and weather
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