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Carbon Blues - Cars, Catastrophes, and the Battle for the Environment (Hardcover)
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Carbon Blues - Cars, Catastrophes, and the Battle for the Environment (Hardcover)
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Climate change is the most serious crisis of our time. As history
is being written in fire in California and Greece, in the warming
waters of the Gulf of Mexico, and in the melting ice of the Arctic
and Antarctica, Carbon Blues demystifies current debates on climate
change, discussing everything from carbon dioxide increases in the
atmosphere caused by cars, coal, and oil to global warming and
worsening natural disasters. A detailed examination of the history
of climate change and its present and future consequences, Carbon
Blues traces the essential economic importance of coal in the
nineteenth century and oil in the twentieth, emphasizing the role
of the automobile and the internal combustion engine in the
dereliction of our planet. Exposing campaigns to mislead the
public, Mike Mason reveals that the fatal consequences of CO2 and
NO2 have been widely known for decades but successfully discounted
and manipulated by the carbon lobby led by Exxon, BP, figures such
as the Koch brothers, and democratically elected governments. The
book underlines the disturbing truth: that despite current attempts
to remediate climate change, the harm already done - melting polar
ice and the warming and rising of the seas - will be virtually
irreversible. As the fight against climate change comes to a head,
Carbon Blues searches for fruitful ways forward.
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