New Climate War : The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

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Neuware - Shortlisted for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year awardA renowned climate scientist shows how fossil fuel companies have waged a thirty-year campaign to deflect blame and responsibility and delay action on climate change, and offers a battle plan for how we can save the planet. Recycle. Fly less. Eat less meat. These are some of the ways that weve been told can slow climate change. But the inordinate emphasis on individual behavior is the result of a marketing campaign that has succeeded in placing the responsibility for fixing climate change squarely on the shoulders of individuals.Fossil fuel companies have followed the example of other industries deflecting blame (think guns dont kill people, people kill people) or greenwashing (think of the beverage industrys Crying Indian commercials of the 1970s). Meanwhile, theyve blocked efforts to regulate or price carbon emissions, run PR campaigns aimed at discrediting viable alternatives, and have abdicated their responsibility in fixing the problem theyve created. The result has been disastrous for our planet.In The New Climate War, Mann argues that all is not lost. He draws the battle lines between the people and the polluters-fossil fuel companies, right-wing plutocrats, and petrostates. And he outlines a plan for forcing our governments and corporations to wake up and make real change, including:

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Titel

New Climate War : The Fight to Take Back Our Planet

Verlag

Hachette Book Group USA Mär 2021

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN-10

1541700570

ISBN-13

9781541700574

Einband

Taschenbuch

Zustand

Neu

Abmessungen

23,4B x 15,2 H x 2,6 T Zentimeter Breite: 23,4 cm, Höhe: 15,2 cm, Tiefe: 2,6 cm

Gewicht

388 Gramm

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