Down to the Wire

Confronting Climate Collapse
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-19-982936-1
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 304 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Singled out as "one of the country's leading environmental thinkers" by Bill McKibben in the New York Review of Books, David W. Orr offers an exacting analysis of where we are in terms of climate change, how we got here, and what we must now do. Orr shows 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. We now face a long emergency of rising temperatures, rising sea-levels, and a host of other related problems that will increasingly undermine human civilization. Down to the Wire is a major wake-up call. But this is not a doomsday book. Orr offers a wide range of pragmatic, far-reaching proposals--some of which have already been adopted by the Obama administration--for how we might reconnect public policy with rigorous science, bring our economy into alignment with ecological realities, and begin to regard ourselves as planetary trustees for future generations.

Zielgruppe

General readers and students interested climate change, public policy, environmental policy, and how to make a change for an environmentally sound future. Climate scientists and those involved in climate policy at national and state levels; foundations funding climate research and action, government agencies, college courses for the growing number of college classes that deal with climate issues; and churches and religious groups engaged in the climate debate.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Orr, David W

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Klimawandel, Globale Erwärmung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltverschmutzung, Umweltkriminalität, Umweltrecht
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface to the Paperback Edition
Preface
Introduction
Part One: Politics and Governance
1. Governance
2. Late-Night Thoughts about Democracy in the Long Emergency
3. Leadership in the Long Emergency
Part Two: Connections
4. The Carbon Connection
5. The Spirit of Connection
Part Three: Farther Horizons
6. Millenial Hope
7. Hope at the End of Our Tether
9. The Upshot: What Is to Be Done?
Postscript: A Disclosure

Über Autor(innen)

Orr, David W
David W. Orr is the Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics and Special Advisor to the President of Oberlin College. He is the author of numerous books, including The Nature of Design and Ecological Literacy.