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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 him 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, he writes a weekly column for the Guardian newspaper.

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The author calls for improved home insulation/heating systems, an en...more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 06 12:24:58 -0700 2009 Wed Jun 10 01:28:49 -0700 2009 Wow! This book is filled with so much awesomeness I'm having difficulty deciding how describe it.

Alright, well this is a book that promises the solution to climate-change, by the wicked George Monbiot. In a world where environmentalists are continually faced with depressing statistics an...

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For a st...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Thu Sep 27 12:51:23 -0700 2007 Tue May 20 11:08:49 -0700 2008 Heat, George Monbiot has moved past the obfuscating arguments being slung like mud back and forth across the globe, and faces not just the alarming truth of global warming but the seemingly impossible task of actually doing something about it.

This book is, as he points out in the in...more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Sep 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat Aug 25 07:26:58 -0700 2007 Sat Sep 22 06:27:57 -0700 2007 Making the choice
After reading on the internet a number of unsatisfactory articles about climate change, I decided to read a good book on this essential topic. I compared them basing my choice on the information I could find about the three books I’d been proposed, and on the need to verify ...more...]]> 0 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Jun 12 09:53:16 -0700 2009 Fri Jun 12 09:56:23 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Feb 03 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 18:00:54 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 03 16:26:16 -0800 2009
Best book I've read on the topic of climate change and what we should be doing about it. Best because it is *thor...more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 01 08:44:07 -0700 2007 Wed Dec 05 06:36:50 -0800 2007
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I like Al Gore's documentary ('An inconvenient Truth') better. U...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Dec 15 06:54:55 -0800 2007 Mon Jul 28 06:49:03 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 true false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 26 05:25:11 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 22:51:31 -0700 2007 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=1114273