Down to the wire: confronting climate collapse
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1. Verfasser: Orr, David W. 1944- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Oxford Oxford University Press 2009
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Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-247) and index
Governance -- Late-night thoughts about democracy in the long emergency -- Leadership in the long emergency -- The carbon connection -- The spirit of connection -- Millennial hope -- Hope at the end of our tether -- The upshot : what is to be done?
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives ... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloquent assessment of climate destabilization and an urgent call to action. Orr describes how political negligence, an economy based on the insatiable consumption of trivial goods, and a disdain for the well-being of future generations have brought us to the tipping point that biologist Edward O. Wilson
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ISBN:0199736839
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