Climate Change

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Confederation Quagmire

Confederation Quagmire

Regional Differences, Then and Now

From: A Good War

In Chapter 5, Klein examines the challenges the federal government faces while trying to secure sufficient collaboration across the various levels of government to confront the climate crisis. … 24 $2.40 Add
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Containing Environmentalism

Containing Environmentalism

From: 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 … 24 $2.40 Add
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Cooling and Warming from Volcanic Eruptions

Cooling and Warming from Volcanic Eruptions

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

This chapter is about why we have volcanic eruptions, how they differ in style and in size and why that’s important, and how they affect the Earth’s climate both on a short time … 22 $2.20 Add
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COP Out

COP Out

From: The Great Greenwashing

From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You 22 $2.20 Add
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Croplands, Forests, and Oceans

Croplands, Forests, and Oceans

How 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. ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

From: Resilient Agriculture

The final chapter of the book looks beyond the farm and assesses ways for the entire food production system – from farm to table – to become more resilient. Everything from … 34 $3.40 Add
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Dangerous opportunities
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Dangerous opportunities

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

The author describes world leaders and thinkers who posit: never let a good crisis go to waste. He continues: conflict is an essential driver of human progress, so long as it is managed … 14 $1.40 Add
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Degrowth
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Degrowth

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 8 explores the idea of degrowth, as opposed to the role of perpetual economic growth which had led to the current ecological crisis. 20 $2.00 Add
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Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

From: Changing Tides

We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … 8 $0.80 Add
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Duped and How

Duped and How

Gaslighting Blurs our Reality with Bryant Welch

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Welch said that today’s gaslighters work in the public square to create confusion and prey on public vulnerability, using sophisticated forms of manipulation, mind games and PR spin. … 6 $0.60 Add
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Duped and How

Duped and How

Summary: The Polluted Public Square

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

I found the attacks on scientists and the volume of propaganda used to cloud environmental issues puzzling. I found myself becoming angrier about the deception and lack of fair play than I was … 12 $1.20 Add
Earth for All
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Earth for All

A Survival Guide for Humanity

Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the … 218 View
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Earth's Orbital Variations

Earth’s Orbital Variations

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

This chapter examines the role of the Earth’s orbital variations in determining the world’s climate. The tilt of the Earth’s axis and our irregular elliptical orbit around the … 15 $1.50 Add
Ecological Footprint

Ecological Footprint

Managing 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 … 290 View