Global Warming
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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 Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 290 | 2019 | View |
 Getting to ZeroCanada Confronts Global Warming |
In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He … | Tony Clarke | 248 | 2018 | View |
 Oil’s Deep StateHow the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa |
This book addresses the question of democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat … | Kevin Taft | 256 | 2017 | View |
 The Big StallHow big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada |
This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil … | Donald Gutstein | 304 | 2018 | View |
 Thirty Years of FailureUnderstanding Canadian Climate Policy |
Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a … | Robert MacNeil | 192 | 2019 | View |
IntroductionFrom: Getting to Zero |
Identifies how the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray should cause Canada to confront climate change. Discusses how oil sand production has increased and why this needs to change for Canada to … | Tony Clarke | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
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From IntroductionFootprint: Why? From: Ecological Footprint |
- | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From Preface & IntroductionAn unwitting experiment From: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft provides an unique and personal view on the hold oil companies have on our democratic institutions. He goes on to provide a brief history of … | Kevin Taft | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |
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From Area as CurrencyHow Much Biocapacity Does a Person Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
A deeper introduction to the Footprint, explaining the underlying physical principles and idea of accounting. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From Big Oil Takes ControlFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the rise of neo-liberalism think tanks in Canada and their impact on energy policy through the 1970s and 1980s. Trudeau’s Keynesian interventions such as the NEP and Petro Canada … | Donald Gutstein | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From Burning PlanetFrom: Getting to Zero |
Explores the big picture of ongoing global warming, and the lack of impact to date of the Paris Accord. Summarizes the threat to soil, water, and air. | Tony Clarke | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From Containing EnvironmentalismFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes the business lobby’s tactics to contain environmentalism propaganda, including the use of think tanks, during the 1970s and 1980s. Details the rise of neo-liberalism via the Mont … | Donald Gutstein | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
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From Ecological HinterlandHow much Biocapacity Does a City Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
This chapter uses the city lens – explaining a city metabolism and its requirement of distant ecosystems to operate. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From Global EconomyFrom: Getting to Zero |
Analyzes the impact of neo-liberalism, globalization, and free trade on global warming. Presents an analysis of corporate power as the key obstacle to meaningful climate action by governments and … | Tony Clarke | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
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From Croplands, Forests, and OceansHow Much Biocapacity Do We Have? From: Ecological Footprint |
This is the other side of the coin: what nature is able to deliver. It explains why regeneration is the mother of all material constraints. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From Extractive EconomyFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses Canadian economic history, focusing on the analysis that inteprets Canada as an extractive economy. Situates PMs Harper and Trudeau’s policies in this context. Examines the … | Tony Clarke | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
