The Heat Is On: The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription - Softcover

Gelbspan, Ross

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738200255 ISBN 13: 9780738200255

Publisher: Basic Books, 1998

Synopsis

This book not only brings home the imminence of climate change but also examines the campaign of deception by big coal and big oil that is keeping the issue off the public agenda. It examines the various arenas in which the battle for control of the issue is being fought--a battle with surprising political alliances and relentless obstructionism. The story provides an ominous foretaste of the gathering threat of political chaos and totalitarianism. And it concludes by outlining a transistion to the future that contains, at least, the possibility of continuity for our organized civilization, and, at best, a vast increase in the stability, equity, and wealth of the global economy.

About this title

About the Author:

Ross Gelbspan has been an editor and reporter at The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. He covered the U.N. Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998. As special projects editor of The Boston Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984.

About this edition

• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0738200255
• ISBN 13: 9780738200255
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288