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[2021]
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When the Red Nation released their call for a Red Deal, it generated coverage in places from Teen Vogue to Jacobin to the New Republic, was endorsed by the DSA, and has galvanized organizing and action. Now, in response to popular demand, the Red Nation expands their original statement filling in the histories and ideas that formed it and forwarding an even more powerful case for the actions it demands. One-part visionary platform, one-part practical...
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This book makes the case that many climate related scientists have provided data that confirm that burning fossil fuels has increased greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, which has had a major impact on climate change. Each of the six chapters provides many references and questions for review.
The first chapter emphasizes worldwide awareness of the relationship between climate change and disasters in the Asia Pacific region. The following chapters...
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All is well with the weather. This book cools down the debate on global warming and blows away the hot air. The false claims of climate hysterics are superbly rebutted. There is no need to panic, scaremongering politicians are misleading the public they need to calm down the climate debate. Read why.
So lucid and accessible are the scientific contradictions of the global warming dogma that it is truly astounding how belief in its doctrine has...
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There has been a deliberate and orchestrated approach to promote the theory of human-made climate change initiated largely by the IPCC, which has created alarmist fears about climate and threats of global warming. All such predictions have been wrong and exaggerated and have used manipulated data to do this.
These claims have become a dominant theme in world politics aided by the vast funding available for so-called research but really for propaganda...
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I'm offering this simple handbook to you, full of exceptional ways to make many differences to improve various things on the planet, including Climate Change situations for anyone in the world who wants a reference book of suggestions for anything that can be done to help, regarding all kinds of efforts that many people are trying to make in many places everywhere.
After two years of studying how people can deal with Climate Change and some other...
68) Dead Heat
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Today's "extreme weather events" (record-breaking heat waves, droughts, and melting ice caps) foreshadow an increasingly unstable and dire future. Yet, despite all, the US government continues to reject the Kyoto Protocol, to deny the catastrophic consequences of oil dependency, and to define the politics of oil as the politics of U.S. unilateralism, domination, and war.
Dead Heat argues that justice-not rhetoric and "aid" but real developmental justice...
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THE LAYMAN'S GUIDE TO THE TRUTH ABOUT GLOBAL WARMING AND HOW WE CAN END IT This book is written for the general public, and explains the politically-charged and oftentimes confusing topic of global warming in terms that the average person can readily understand. It cuts through what is frequently self-serving propaganda and twisting of facts so that clarity can prevail. This book presents, in clear and concise language, a comprehensive and viable...
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"Como consecuencia del crecimiento del consumo de combustibles fósiles, las emisiones de dióxido de carbono aumentaron y aumentarán exponencialmente, y al mismo ritmo seguirán sus concentraciones en la atmósfera. El resultado es un calentamiento global que amenaza con la extinción de especies más devastadora de los últimos millones de años y que, de persistir por mucho tiempo, hará de la superficie de la Tierra algo muy distinto de lo que...
71) Climate Chaos?!
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A fun and cheerful way to consider the very serious subject of global warming. Written in a multiple-choice, trivia quiz format, through 71 questions (and answers), this book addresses many issues related to global warming. For added entertainment value, most questions have a silly (or absurd) answer choice in addition to the serious choices. The correct answers often go into greater detail about a particular question. The answers are supported by...
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The world is at strangest of times; experiencing the harshest of temperatures, the weakest rainfall, the strongest floods, and the fiercest of silent wars. The earth is crying, but just a few can hear her wail at the feet of climate change and food insecurity. We are witnessing the incessant and daily drum beats from the media insisting that the disasters occurring are the results of 'Climate Change' caused by human activity, fossil fuels etc; is...
73) Lady Gaia Speaks
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What does the planet think?
Lady Gaia is an organism made up of every living thing, from prions and viruses to blue whales and red sequoias, and in this imaginative tour de force of a polemic against human-made global warming and habitat destruction, Patricia Finney gets the views of the world we should love, on our prospects for survival, departure into space — or replacement.
There are other species that could become dominant, if our planet turns...
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If you are driving off a cliff, someone telling you to slow down isn't much of a help. (Well, slowing down while you turn in a new direction is likely to be a good idea.) By burning fossil fuels, humanity is now driving itself off a climate cliff toward extinction. We need to completely stop burning "stuff" (fossil fuels, or anything else) for energy. Yet to thrive we really do need lots of energy-in fact, even more than we now are using. This book...
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Clima y cambio climático resume todo lo que una persona informada tiene que conocer hoy sobre la emergencia climática y la atmósfera de la Tierra. A través de una prosa muy cuidada, el profesor Tapiador consigue transmitirnos ideas complejas con extraordinaria sencillez. Con un estilo divulgativo y fluido, y sin perder nunca el rigor científico, el libro traslada conocimiento de primera mano sobre "el problema emergente más importante de la...
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In Comfortably Unaware, Dr. Richard Oppenlander tackles the crucial issue of global depletion as it relates to food choice. We should all be committed, he tells us, to understanding the reality and consequences of our diet, the footprint it makes on our environment, and seek food products that are in the best interest of all living things. His forthright information and stark mental images are often disturbing-and that's how it should be. As the guardians...
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Are you overwhelmed by the conflicting information and passionate debates surrounding climate change? Does the urgency in climate discourse leave you feeling anxious and concerned? Do you wish you had a clearer understanding of the science that underpins this global issue?
If you answered 'yes' to any of these questions, then this book is your essential guide.
This isn't a manifesto pushing a political agenda. Instead, it aims to arm you with straightforward...
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Embark on an eye-opening journey with 'Climate Crossroads,' your essential guide to understanding the pressing issues of climate change and embracing sustainable living. This engaging book takes you to the very heart of our environmental challenges and equips you with the knowledge and strategies to make a positive impact on our world.Delve into the Earth's remarkable history in 'A Journey Through Earth's Past' to grasp how our climate has evolved...
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Facing Climate Change explains why people refuse to accept evidence of a warming planet and shows how to move past partisanship to reach a consensus for action. A climate scientist and licensed psychotherapist, Jeffrey T. Kiehl examines the psychological phenomena that twist our relationship to the natural world and their role in shaping the cultural beliefs that distance us further from nature. He also accounts for the emotions triggered by the lived...
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