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基本説明
A powerful and vital guide to how mass mobilization can avert the looming catastrophe.
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Climate change is a pressing reality. Hurricane Katrina, melting polar ice and increased threats to food and water security show that planetary blowback is becoming all too evident.Governments and business keep reassuring the public they are going to fix the problem. This book brings together some leading activists who disagree. They expose the inertia, denial, deception -- even threats to our civil liberties -- which comprise mainstream responses from civil and military policy makers, and from opinion formers in the media, corporations and academia.An epochal change is called for in the way we all engage with the climate crisis. Key to that change is Aubrey Meyer's proposed Contraction and Convergence framework for limiting global carbon emissions. This book, which also includes contributions by Mayer Hillman and George Marshall, is a powerful and vital guide to how mass mobilisation can avert the looming catastrophe.
Contents
PrefaceIntroduction: Survival Means Renewal, Mark Levene and David Cromwell - Both University of SouthamptonPart I The Big Picture 1. The Case for Contraction and Convergence, Aubrey Meyer Part II The State and its Apparatus2. Thinking the Worst: The Pentagon Report, Dave Webb - Leeds Metropolitan University3. Preparing for Mass Refugee Flows: The Corporate Military Sector, Steve Wright - Leeds Metropolitan University4. Britain, Political Process and the Consequences for Government Action on Climate Change, James HumphreysPart III Critical Players5. First they Blocked, Now do they Bluff? Corporations respond to Climate Change, Melanie Jarman6. Mostly Missing the Point: Business Responses to Climate Change, David Ballard - University of Bath7. The Mass Media, Climate Change and how things might be, John Theobald and Marianne McKiggan8. Having the Information but what do you then do with it? The Scientific and Academic Communities, Jonathan Ward - University of Bristol9. Asleep on their Watch: Where were the NGOs?, George MarshallPart IV The Challenge Ahead10.Clearing the Pathways to Transformation, Susan Ballard and David Ballard11. Averting Climate Change: By Force, Persuasion or Enlightened Self-Interest ? Jim ScottAfterword: Where Do We Go From Here? Mayer Hillman - Policy Studies Institute, LondonAppendix 1: A Layperson's Glossary of the Global Politics of Climate Change, Tim Helweg-Larsen (Centre for Alternative Technology, Machynelleth, Wales) and Jo AbbessAppendix 2: Climate Change campaigns and other relevant linksNotes on ContributorsIndex
