Fire and flood: a people's history of climate change, from 1979 to the present
Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988. In the years since, he has written many more investigative pieces, for many outlets, as well as served as an advisor for nonprofits, insurance companies, and other businesses in the cross-hairs of the disast...
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| Zusammenfassung: | Eugene Linden wrote his first big cover story on climate change, for Time magazine, in 1988. In the years since, he has written many more investigative pieces, for many outlets, as well as served as an advisor for nonprofits, insurance companies, and other businesses in the cross-hairs of the disastrous impact of global warming. Fire and Flood represents his definitive case for the prosecution as to how and why we have arrived at our current dire pass, closing with his argument that the same forces that have so confused the public’s mind and slowed the policy response are poised to pivot with astonishing speed, as long-term risks have become present-day realities and the cliff’s edge is now within view. Starting with the 1980’s, Linden tells the story decade by decade by looking at four clocks within each span that move at different speeds: the reality of climate change itself; the scientific consensus about it, which always lags reality; public opinion and political will, which lag farther still; and finally, what he argues is the most important clock, business and finance. Reality marches on at its own pace, but the public will and even the science are downstream from the money, and Fire and Flood shows vividly how devilishly effective the monied climate-change deniers have been at slowing and even reversing the progress of our collective awakening. When a threat means certain disaster at an unknown future point, but addressing it means certain lost profit in the present, capitalism’s response is sadly predictable. |
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| adam_text | CONTENTS Preface xiii Introduction xix One: THE FOUR CLOCKS 1 PART ONE I Setting the Stage Two: THE BIGGEST PICTURE 9 Three: SCIENCE: The Dawn of the Modern Climate Change Era PART TIO ļ The 1980s Four: SCIENCE IN THE 1980s 31 Five: THE 1980s: A Distracted Public 43 Six: BUSINESS AND FINANCE IN THE 1980s: Creating the Denial Playbook 54 PART THREE | The 199Os Seven: REALITY: Ominous Portents of Change Eight: CLIMATE SCIENCE IN THE 1990s: A New Paradigm Emerges 73 67 16
Mue: THE PUBLIC: Stirred but Not Shaken 89 Ten: BUSINESS AND FINANCE IN THE 1990s: Mobilizing, but Against Climate Action 106 I The New Millennium PART FOUR Eleven: REALITY IN THE OUGHTS 125 Twelve: THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE OUGHTS Thirteen: PUBLIC OPINION IN THE OUGHTS: A Climate Denier in the White House 152 Fourteen: BUSINESS AND FINANCE IN THE OUGHTS: Stirrings of Change PART FIVE 163 I 2010s: Things Get Real Fifteen: THE 2010s: Reality Bites 183 Sixteen: THE CLIMATE PICTURE COMES INTO FOCUS 201 Seventeen: THE 2010s: The Public Realizes That Something Is Wrong 215 Eighteen: THE 2010s: Business and Finance Awaken to the Threat 230 PÄRT SIX Į Where Do We Go from Here? Nineteen: THE TRAP WE’VE SET FOR OURSELVES 245 Twenty: A NARROW PATH TO A LIVABLE FUTURE 261 Acknowledgments 271 Suggested Further Reading 275 Index 277 135
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from a writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the climate in harmful ways. ‘A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late,’ their report said. They were right - but no one was listening. Four decades later, we are haunted by the consequences of this inattention, and the years of complacency, obfuscation and denialism that followed. Today, the staggering scale and scope of what we have done to the planet is impossible to ignore: the seasons of fire and flood have crossed into plain view. Fire and Flood is a comprehensive, compulsively readable history of climate change from veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden. Linden retells the story of the modern climate change era decade by decade, tracking the progress of four ticking clocks: first, the reality of climate change itself; second, advances in scientific understanding; third, the spread of public awareness; and fourth, the business and finance response. Like no previous writer, Linden has drawn together the elements of the biggest story in the world, in a book that is gripping as history, as economic investigation, and as scientific thriller.
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CONTENTS Preface xiii Introduction xix One: THE FOUR CLOCKS 1 PART ONE I Setting the Stage Two: THE BIGGEST PICTURE 9 Three: SCIENCE: The Dawn of the Modern Climate Change Era PART TIO ļ The 1980s Four: SCIENCE IN THE 1980s 31 Five: THE 1980s: A Distracted Public 43 Six: BUSINESS AND FINANCE IN THE 1980s: Creating the Denial Playbook 54 PART THREE | The 199Os Seven: REALITY: Ominous Portents of Change Eight: CLIMATE SCIENCE IN THE 1990s: A New Paradigm Emerges 73 67 16
Mue: THE PUBLIC: Stirred but Not Shaken 89 Ten: BUSINESS AND FINANCE IN THE 1990s: Mobilizing, but Against Climate Action 106 I The New Millennium PART FOUR Eleven: REALITY IN THE OUGHTS 125 Twelve: THE SCIENCE OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE OUGHTS Thirteen: PUBLIC OPINION IN THE OUGHTS: A Climate Denier in the White House 152 Fourteen: BUSINESS AND FINANCE IN THE OUGHTS: Stirrings of Change PART FIVE 163 I 2010s: Things Get Real Fifteen: THE 2010s: Reality Bites 183 Sixteen: THE CLIMATE PICTURE COMES INTO FOCUS 201 Seventeen: THE 2010s: The Public Realizes That Something Is Wrong 215 Eighteen: THE 2010s: Business and Finance Awaken to the Threat 230 PÄRT SIX Į Where Do We Go from Here? Nineteen: THE TRAP WE’VE SET FOR OURSELVES 245 Twenty: A NARROW PATH TO A LIVABLE FUTURE 261 Acknowledgments 271 Suggested Further Reading 275 Index 277 135
The definitive history of the modern climate change era, from a writer who has been at the centre of the fight for more than thirty years In 1979, President Jimmy Carter was presented with the findings of scientists who had been investigating whether human activities might change the climate in harmful ways. ‘A wait-and-see policy may mean waiting until it is too late,’ their report said. They were right - but no one was listening. Four decades later, we are haunted by the consequences of this inattention, and the years of complacency, obfuscation and denialism that followed. Today, the staggering scale and scope of what we have done to the planet is impossible to ignore: the seasons of fire and flood have crossed into plain view. Fire and Flood is a comprehensive, compulsively readable history of climate change from veteran environmental journalist Eugene Linden. Linden retells the story of the modern climate change era decade by decade, tracking the progress of four ticking clocks: first, the reality of climate change itself; second, advances in scientific understanding; third, the spread of public awareness; and fourth, the business and finance response. Like no previous writer, Linden has drawn together the elements of the biggest story in the world, in a book that is gripping as history, as economic investigation, and as scientific thriller. |
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