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Author Carter, Peter D. (Environmentalist), author.

Title Unprecedented crime : climate science denial and game changers for survival / by Dr. Peter D. Carter, Elizabeth Woodworth ; foreword by James E. Hansen.

Publication Info. Atlanta, GA, USA : Clarity Press, Inc., [2018]

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 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  363.738 CAR    Check Shelf
Description 269 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 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.
Subject Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. (OCoLC)fst00657225
Climatic changes -- Social aspects.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects.
Climatic changes -- Political aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864257
Climatic changes -- Social aspects. (OCoLC)fst00864268
Anthropogene Klimaänderung (DE-588)4290733-0
Klimaschutz (DE-588)7547705-1
Missachtung (DE-588)4480321-7
Umweltpolitik (DE-588)4078523-3
Added Author Woodworth, Elizabeth, 1943- author.
Hansen, James E. (James Edward), 1941- writer of foreword.
Added Title Climate science denial and game changers for survival
Other Form: Online version: Carter, Peter D. (Environmentalist). Unprecedented crime. Atlanta, GA : Clarity Press, Inc., 2018 9780998694740 (DLC) 2017061123
ISBN 9780998694733 (paperback)
0998694738 (paperback)
9780998694740 (electronic book)
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