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Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Explores ways that people can reduce their use of fossil fuels, and thereby reduce the amount of greenhouse gases emitted, and ways to adapt to a warming world; includes glossary, additional resources, and index"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Recent changes in the global production and flow of energy have remade the world. In this book, the author reveals the forces shaping the future of energy, both renewable and fossil fuel. The New Map offers a new vision of the world's energy reserves and, therefore, the future of geopolitics"--
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"This brilliantly original book dismantles the underlying assumptions that drive the decisions made by companies and governments the world over to show that our shared narrative of the global economy is deeply flawed and, if left unexamined, will lead corporations and countries astray, with dire consequences for us all. For the past fifty years or so, the global economy has been run on three big assumptions: that globalization will continue to spread;...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 117-114
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"The most important book yet from the author of the international bestseller The Shock Doctrine, a brilliant explanation of why the climate crisis challenges us to abandon the core "free market" ideology of our time, restructure the global economy, and remake our political systems. In short, either we embrace radical change ourselves or radical changes will be visited upon our physical world. The status quo is no longer an option. In This Changes...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
"2016 Outstanding Book of the Year "Most Likely to Save the Planet," Independent Publisher Book Awards" "One of Financial Times (FT.com) Best Books in Economics 2015, chosen by Martin Wolf" "A Financial Times Summer Books 2015 selection" "One of the Globalist's Top Books of 2015" "Longlisted for the Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year 2015" Gernot Wagner is lead senior economist at the Environmental Defense Fund. Martin L. Weitzman...
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 114-819
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Author
Series
Testimony volume GAO-14-364 T
Publisher
United States Government Accountability Office
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"The left and right -- the business community and environmentalists, bankers and activists -- must together reclaim capitalism and force profits to align with the planet. A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide: anti-market critics from Naomi Klein to the Pope target capitalism itself as a root cause of climate change, while neo-conservatives who diminish the climate threat are in favor of market fundamentalism....
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"The Drowning of Money Island tells the story of a journalist's return to a hometown ravaged by Superstorm Sandy, where lack of recovery, sea level rise, and a state effort to buy out and demolish neighborhoods has fractured the community and foreshadowedcoastal America's sinking future"--
