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The Heat Is On - The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription (Paperback, Updated)
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The Heat Is On - The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription (Paperback, Updated)
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Old-fashioned muckraking against "big oil and big coal" meets new
scientific theories on global warming. Forest fires rage through
Mongolia and Texas. Killer heat waves fell hundreds in Calcutta and
Chicago. Floods consume Nepal and Oman. Deserts form in Greece and
Spain. These and countless other alarming recent incidents form the
backdrop for Gelbspan's impassioned, if perhaps too alarmist, book.
Gelbspan, a veteran reporter with such papers as the Washington
Post and the Boston Globe and a Pulitzer Prize winner, wants the
reader to know about these harbingers of disaster; he opens with a
dire scenario about the melting of the Antarctic ice cap after the
greenhouse effect heats up the planet's surface enough to after
normal weather cycles. "The truth underlying the increasingly
apparent changes in global climate has largely been kept out of
public view," Gelbspan argues. Why? Precisely, he continues,
because the multitrillion-dollar oil and gas industries have
conspired to keep that truth hidden. He goes on to examine the
energy industries' financing of reports that deny the disappearance
of the ozone layer and other manifestations of human-caused
climatic change, charging that the science in those reports is
tainted by big money. Gelbspan's own command of science sometimes
seems a little fuzzy, and the reader is left to judge just how evil
the energy companies' acting out of clear self-interest really is,
but it all adds up to an interesting polemic. And Gelbspan gives a
good account of alternative-energy programs, which he urges be
given greater funding priority; with the proper tax incentives, he
maintains, "climate-friendly energy technologies could instantly
become competitive with fossil fuels." Is the sky falling? After
reading this book, you might be inclined to think so. (Kirkus
Reviews)
This 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.
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