Climate of hope : how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet / Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope.
"In 2006, the documentary An Inconvenient Truth set off a heated political debate when it threatened that inaction on climate change would lead to a dark and frightening future by 2016. Well, that ten year window has closed--and we have neither resolved the threats to our climate, nor gone past the point of no return. To Mayor Bloomberg and Carl Pope, it's clear that to treat climate change as either a lost cause or a non-issue is the wrong approach. Global leaders are stymied by the enormity of the doom-and-gloom scenarios. So what happens when you tell leaders that they can definitely--right now, this year--reduce the number of children who have asthma attacks, save thousands of Americans from dying of respiratory disease, cut energy bills, increase thesecurity of our energy supply, make it easier for everyone to get around town, increase the number of jobs in their community--all while increasing the long-term stability of the global climate? That is actionable. That future is within our grasp. The changing climate should be seen as a series of discreet, manageable problems that should be attacked from all angles, each with a solution that can make our society healthier and our economy stronger. In these times, when it's less and less clear if the federal government will be willing to tackle climate change, Bloomberg and Pope lay out a powerfully persuasive argument about how cities can play an outsize role in fighting and reversing the dangerous effects of a warming planet. Together they lay out theeconomic and personal health reasons for businesses and individual citizens to support climate change action plans"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 1250142075
- ISBN: 9781250142078
- Physical Description: 264 pages : color illustrations ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition
- Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017.
Content descriptions
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Part I Coming to Climate -- 1 Going After Goliath 9 -- 2 PlaNYC 19 -- Part II What It is and why it Matters -- 3 Science 41 -- 4 Stakes 57 -- Part III Coal to Clean Energy -- 5 Coal's Toll 75 -- 6 Green Power 93 -- Part IV Green Living -- 7 Where We Live 107 -- 8 How We Eat 117 -- Part V Travel Directions -- 9 Cities Take the Wheel 131 -- 10 Oil's Twilight 147 -- Part VI Cool Capitalism -- 11 What We Make 169 -- 12 How We Invest 185 -- Part VII Adapting to Change -- 13 A Resilient World 203 -- 14 New Normals 223 -- Conclusion -- 15 Way Forward 245.
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