Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse
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Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse
Oxford University Press, 2012
- : pbk
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Originally published in 2009
Bibliography: p. [229]-247
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Singled out as "one of the country's leading environmental thinkers" by Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books, David W. Orr offers an exacting analysis of where we are in terms of climate change, how we got here, and what we must now do. Orr shows how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point. We now face a long
emergency of rising temperatures, rising sea-levels, and a host of other related problems that will increasingly undermine human civilization. Down to the Wire is a major wake-up call. But this is not a doomsday book. Orr offers a wide range of pragmatic, far-reaching proposals-some of which have already been
adopted by the Obama administration-for how we might reconnect public policy with rigorous science, bring our economy into alignment with ecological realities, and begin to regard ourselves as planetary trustees for future generations.
Table of Contents
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part One: Politics and Governance
- 1. Governance
- 2. Late-Night Thoughts about Democracy in the Long Emergency
- 3. Leadership in the Long Emergency
- Part Two: Connections
- 4. The Carbon Connection
- 5. The Spirit of Connection
- Part Three: Farther Horizons
- 6. Millenial Hope
- 7. Hope at the End of Our Tether
- 9. The Upshot: What Is to Be Done?
- Postscript: A Disclosure
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