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Climate of hope : how cities, businesses, and citizens can save the planet / Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2017Edition: First editionDescription: 264 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781250142078 (hardback)
  • 1250142075 (hardback)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.738/74
LOC classification:
  • QC 903 B655c 2017
Contents:
Part I. Coming to climate. Going after Goliath PlaNYC Part II. What it is and why it matters. The science The stakes Part III. Coal to clean energy. Coal's toll Green power Part IV. Green living. Where we live How we eat Part V. Travel directions. Cities take the wheel Oil's twilight Part VI. Cool capitalism. What we make How we invest Part VII. Adapting to change. A resilient world New normals Conclusion. The way forward
Summary: "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 the security 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 the economic and personal health reasons for businesses and individual citizens to support climate change action plans"-- Provided by publisher.
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Part I. Coming to climate. Going after Goliath
PlaNYC
Part II. What it is and why it matters. The science
The stakes
Part III. Coal to clean energy. Coal's toll
Green power
Part IV. Green living. Where we live
How we eat
Part V. Travel directions. Cities take the wheel
Oil's twilight
Part VI. Cool capitalism. What we make
How we invest
Part VII. Adapting to change. A resilient world
New normals
Conclusion. The way forward

"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 the security 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 the economic and personal health reasons for businesses and individual citizens to support climate change action plans"-- Provided by publisher.

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