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Book SynopsisThis 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 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.
Table of Contents* Introduction: Climate Change Is Here. Now. * Of Termites and Computer Models * The Battle for Control of Reality * A Congressional Book Burning * The Changing Climate of Business: Boom or Bankruptcy * After Rio: The Swamp of Diplomacy * Headlines from the Planet * The Coming Permanent State of Emergency * One Pathway to a Future * Appendix: A Scientific Critique of the Greenhouse Skeptics * Notes * Index
