The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
by Ross Gelbspan
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This book not only brings home the imminence of climate change but also examines the campaign of deception by big coal and big oil that is keeping the issue off the public agenda. It examines the various arenas in which the battle for control of the issue is being fought--a battle with surprising political alliances and relentless obstructionism. The story provides an ominous foretaste of the gathering threat of political chaos and totalitarianism. And it concludes by outlining a transistion show more to the future that contains, at least, the possibility of continuity for our organized civilization, and, at best, a vast increase in the stability, equity, and wealth of the global economy. show lessTags
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Ross Gelbspan was a longtime reporter and editor at The Philadelphia Bulletin, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe, where he shared a Pulitzer Prize for a series he conceived and edited. He covered the U.N. Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998
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- Science & Nature, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 363.73874 — Society, government, & 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 .G45 — Science Physics Physics Meteorology. Climatology Climatology and weather
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