"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. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in
which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles
as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists,
sportsmen, business owners, or farmers. Johansen--assisted by
climatologist James Hansen's foreword and appendix--gives 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.
These range from the humdrum and easy (keeping your tires properly
inflated), through the necessary and hard (retooling the ways you
transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency
and minimum carbon footprint). 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 power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will
consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting
mirrors in space), as well as the weird and dangerous (pumping
sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere).
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