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Heat
How to Stop the Planet From Burning
George Monbiot
Pages: 304ISBN: 978-0-89608-779-8
Format: cloth
Release Date: 2007-04-23
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Heat: How to Stop the Planet From Burning marks an important moment in our civilization’s thinking about global warming. The question is no longer Is climate change actually happening? but What do we do about it? George Monbiot offers an ambitious and far-reaching program to cut our carbon dioxide emissions to the point where the environmental scales start tipping back—away from catastrophe.
Though writing with a "spirit of optimism," Monbiot does not
pretend it will be easy. The only way to avoid further devastation, he argues,
is a 90% cut in CO2 emissions in the rich nations of the world by
2030. In other words, our response will have to be immediate, and it will have
to be decisive.
In every case he supports his proposals with a rigorous investigation into
what works, what doesn’t, how much it costs, and what the problems might be. He
wages war on bad ideas as energetically as he promotes good ones. And he is not
afraid to attack anyone—friend or foe—whose claims are false or whose figures
have been fudged.
After all, there is no time to waste. As Monbiot has said himself, "we
are the last generation that can make this happen, and this is the last
possible moment at which we can make it happen."
George Monbiot is the
best-selling author of The Age of Consent and Captive State, as
well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon
Watershed, and No Man’s Land. In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented Monbiot
with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental
achievement. He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at the
universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele
(politics), and East London (environmental science). Currently visiting
professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University, Monbiot writes a weekly column
for the Guardian newspaper.
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Reviews
PRAISE FOR HEAT: HOW TO STOP THE PLANET FROM BURNING“George Monbiot’s new book Heat picks up where Al Gore left off.”
—David Morris, AlterNet
“Avoiding disastrous climate change is the central challenge of our time. George Monbiot addresses it with wit, verve, and rigor. He shows that all of our excuses for inaction are just that—excuses. If you care about the future of the planet, you should read Heat, and then give a copy to a friend.”
—Elizabeth Kolbert, author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change
—Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature and Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future
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George Monbiot
Click here to view George Monbiot's full Author PageGeorge Monbiot is the best-selling author of The Age of Consent and Captive State, as well as the investigative travel books Poisoned Arrows, Amazon Watershed, and No Man’s Land. In 1995, Nelson Mandela presented Monbiot with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding environmental achievement. He has held visiting fellowships or professorships at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol (philosophy), Keele (politics), and East London (environmental science). Currently visiting professor of planning at Oxford Brookes University, Monbiot writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.
Monbiot's webpage (http://www.monbiot.com/) is listed by Yahoo as the most popular columnist’s site on Earth, outside the United States.