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The New Climate War
The New Climate War: The Fight to Take Back Our Planet | Michael E. Mann
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A 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 we've 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 don't kill people, people kill people") or greenwashing (think of the beverage industry's "Crying Indian" commercials of the 1970s). Meanwhile, they've 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 they've 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: a common-sense, attainable approach to carbon pricing- and a revision of the well-intentioned but flawed currently proposed version of the Green New Deal; allowing renewable energy to compete fairly against fossil fuels debunking the false narratives and arguments that have worked their way into the climate debate and driven a wedge between even those who support climate change solutions combatting climate doomism and despair-mongering With immensely powerful vested interests aligned in defense of the fossil fuel status quo, the societal tipping point won't happen without the active participation of citizens everywhere aiding in the collective push forward. This book will reach, inform, and enable citizens everywhere to join this battle for our planet.
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While I disagree with the author on several points, I'm sure he'd call me a climate doomist, this is a well written and enlightening look into how the fossil fuel industry and their paid for politicians have waged war against the science of climate change. It's infuriating and sad, but the author is forever optimistic that the change necessary is obtainable.
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Reggie While I appreciate the optimistic views of every book I‘ve read where we figure it out and make it happen about climate change, I am also a doomist. I don‘t think we have it in us. 4y
RamsFan1963 @Reggie The author mentions the current coronavirus crisis as a parallel to climate change. I agree, we've known about the dangers of pandemics but it took the deaths of millions to suddenly get people to notice. When the massive climate catastrophe comes, it will be too late for a quick fix vaccine or tech gadget to save the day. 4y
Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 4y
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