Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a Sustainable World
The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles as citizens, consumers, homeowners,...
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The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, sportsmen, business owners, or farmers. Johansen—assisted by climatologist James Hansen's foreword and appendix—gives general readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the most rational and ethical green choices.Dovetailing the personal with the technological and public-policy dimensions, this book lays out the whole battery of existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming. These range from the humdrum and easy (keeping your tires properly inflated), through the necessary and hard (retooling the ways you transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency and minimum carbon footprint). They also encompass the possible (switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and geothermal power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting mirrors in space), as well as the weird and dangerous (pumping sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere).
Foreword James E. Hansen Hansen, James E.1 Our Cars Are Killing Us: Options in Personal Transport 12 Avoiding Our "Suicide Pact" with Aviation 273 Greening Shelter and Food 434 Biofuels: Where the Money Is 715 The Power Forecast Is Windy 916 Harvesting the Sun 1037 Old Wine in New Bottles: Nuclear Power and Changes in Land Use 1178 The Political Economy of Global Warming 1299 Technofixes 163Appendix 181Bibliography 191Index 209
\ From the Publisher"Books on natural cataclysm, often climate-induced, are in vogue. Bruce Johansens The Global Warming Combat Manual seeks to make readers more environmentally aware. The Global Warming Combat Manual discusses climate-driven changes in US environmental policy and practice. By describing recent switchesthe increasing use of wind power in Texas, for exampleand emerging technologies and trends, Johansen lays out a range of solutions for minimizing climate change."\ -\ Nature\ "Packed with recent examples of ways that individuals and corporations are working to reduce their carbon footprints, this book provides a helpful overview of current strategies for addressing global warming…this book may be a good starting point for students investigating practical solutions…good coverage of strategies used in other countries…Recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduates."\ -\ Choice\ \ \
