The Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a Sustainable World
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| Rating | : | 4.85 (618 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0313352860 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-24 |
| Language | : | English |
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He is the author of dozens of books, including Global Warming in the 21st Century (Praeger, 2006), The Global Warming Desk Reference (Greenwood Press, 2001), The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003), Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues (Greenwood Press, 2003), and Silenced! Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America (Praeger, 2007). Kayser Resear
The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. Johansenassisted by climatologist James Hansen's foreword and appendixgives general readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the most rational and ethical green choices.Dovetailing the personal with the technological and public-policy dimensions, this book lays out the whole battery of existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming. They also encompass the possible (switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and geothermal po
Boots on the ground! Get out there and change the world! That is what you will feel like after you read this book. It's more than riding your bike to work every day. Just one trip in an airplane destroys all the carbon emissions you saved over the year of bicycle community. You have to help your own mini-world make the bigger changes a little at a time to save our species. We have the technology for telecommuting and facetime meetings over the Internet. Let's use them!. Posssibly the MOST IMPORTANT BOOK YOU WILL READ THIS CENTURY: The Global Warming Combat Manual by Bruce Johansen The Global Warming Combat Manual by Bruce Johansen is posssibly the MOST IMPORTANT BOOK YOU WILL READ THIS CENTURY. Not only does it provide the scary truth in layman's terms, but also it explains why turning out the lights and inflating your tires will really help, even though it's by far not enough change. Americans must stop building new coal fueled power plants. Get active and protest and elect politicians who will not bow down to Big Coal.
General readers and lower-division undergraduates." - Choice. "Books on natural cataclysm, often climate-induced, are in vogue. Bruce Johansens The Global Warming Combat Manual seeks to make readers more environmentally aware. By describing recent switchesthe increasing use of wind power in Texas, for exampleand emerging technologies and trends, Johansen lays out a range of solutions for minimizing climate change." - Nature"Packed with recent examples of ways that individuals and corporations are working to reduce their carbon footprints, this book provides a helpful overview of current strategies for addressing global warming…this book may be a good starting point for students investigating practical solutions