Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action

Spratt, David and Sutton, Philip

ISBN 10: 1921372206 / ISBN 13: 9781921372209

Published by Melbourne; Scribe; 2008, 2008

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paperback in very good condition; 304pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Climate Code Red: The Case for Emergency Action
• Publisher: Melbourne; Scribe; 2008
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1921372206
• ISBN 13: 9781921372209
• Binding: Soft cover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Natural History - Plants, Animals and Environment

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Synopsis

This meticulously documented call-to-action reveals extensive scientific evidence that the global warming crisis is far worse than officially indicated ― and that we’re almost at the point of no return.

Serious climate-change impacts are already happening: large ice-sheets are disintegrating, sea-level rises will reach 5 metres this century, and we are seeing devastating species loss.

It is no longer a case of how much more we can ‘safely’ emit, but whether we can stop emissions and produce a deliberate cooling before the Earth’s climate system reaches a point beyond any hope of human restoration.

These imperatives are incompatible with ‘politics as usual’ and ‘business as usual’ ― we face a sustainability emergency that urgently requires a clear break from the politics of failure-inducing compromise.

About the Authors

David Spratt is a Melbourne businessman, climate-policy analyst, and co-founder of Carbon Equity, which advocates personal carbon allowances as the most fair and equitable means of rapidly reducing carbon emissions. He has extensive advocacy experience in the peace movement, and in developing community-campaign communication and marketing strategies.

Philip Sutton is the convener of the Greenleap Strategic Institute, a non-profit environmental-strategy think tank and advisory organisation promoting the very rapid achievement of global and local ecological sustainability. He is also the founder and director of strategy for Green Innovations, and an occasional university lecturer on global warming science and strategies for sustainability. Philip has worked on a number of advisory and policy committees for Australian state and federal governments, was the architect of the Victorian Flora and Fauna Guarantee Act, and is a former president of the Australian and New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics (2001–2003).