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9780141016924

How We Can Save the Planet

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  • ISBN13:

    9780141016924

  • ISBN10:

    0141016922

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2006-01-01
  • Publisher: Penguin Putnam
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Summary

Mayer Hillman is one of Britain's most original and influential thinkers, and has spent the past 30 years turning conventional political thinking on its head. In this book, he offers a blueprint to avoid environmental catastrophe, and questions the commitment of governments in adopting eco-friendly policies.

Table of Contents

Eyes wide shut : introductionp. 6
Beyond the planet's limits : climate change : why, how and what next?p. 9
As if there's no tomorrow : energy use : past, present and futurep. 27
Excuses, excuses, excuses : personal responses to the prospect of climate changep. 54
Too little, too late? : government policy and practicep. 63
Wishful thinking : the role of technologyp. 84
The solution : fair shares : the only wayp. 116
Watching your figure : how to live within the carbon rationp. 146
Climate by chance or climate by choice : conclusionsp. 173
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