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 The Heat Is OnThe Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescriptionby Ross Gelbspan Sep 21, 1998
DescriptionThis book not only brings home the imminence of climate change but also examines the campaign of deception by big coal and big oil that is keeping the issue off the public agenda. It examines the various arenas in which the battle for control of the issue is being fought--a battle with surprising political alliances and relentless obstructionism. The story provides an ominous foretaste of the gathering threat of political chaos and totalitarianism. And it concludes by outlining a transistion to the future that contains, at least, the possibility of continuity for our organized civilization, and, at best, a vast increase in the stability, equity, and wealth of the global economy. Reviews"Until you've read this book, you're ill-equiped to think about the planet's future." "An urgent, take-no-prisioners, in-your-face expose." "No other reporter has told this story as comprehensively or explored its implications for human welfare as searchingly as Gelbspan. With a muckraking passion seen all too rarely these days, Gelbspan ... ably dissects the flimsy sophistry of greenhouse skeptics." "A marvelously readable but devastatingly candid account of the brutal politics of debunking the scientific method by the opulent vested interests of the fossil-fuel lobby.... Here is the inside story, well researched and faithfully presented, of the vicious financing of the 'contrarians,' namely the climate-change skeptics, financed by the fossil-fuel lobbies, who masquerade as university professors, publish no peer-reviewed papers, and yet get the ear of Congress." "People need to read this book, whether they are concerned about slowing global warming or about the use and abuse of science in the political arena or about the struggle in the world between the haves and the have-nots." Selling TerritoryWorld |
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