Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe

Cromwell, David [Editor]; Levene, Mark [Editor];

ISBN 10: 074532567X / ISBN 13: 9780745325675

Published by Pluto Press, 2007

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Surviving Climate Change: The Struggle to Avert Global Catastrophe
• Publisher: Pluto Press
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074532567X
• ISBN 13: 9780745325675
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Climate change is a pressing reality. Hurricane Katrina, melting polar ice and increased threats to food and water security show that planetary blowback is becoming all too evident.

Governments and business keep reassuring the public they are going to fix the problem. This book brings together some leading activists who disagree. They expose the inertia, denial, deception -- even threats to our civil liberties -- which comprise mainstream responses from civil and military policy makers, and from opinion formers in the media, corporations and academia.

An epochal change is called for in the way we all engage with the climate crisis. Key to that change is Aubrey Meyer's proposed Contraction and Convergence framework for limiting global carbon emissions. This book, which also includes contributions by Mayer Hillman and George Marshall, is a powerful and vital guide to how mass mobilisation can avert the looming catastrophe.

About the Author

David Cromwell is co-editor and co-founder of Media Lens. His previous books include Private Planet (2001) and Why Are We The Good Guys? (2012). He is the co-author, with David Edwards, of Guardians of Power (2006), Newspeak in the 21st Century (2009) and Propaganda Blitz: How and Why Corporate Media Distort Reality (Pluto, 2018).

Mark Levene is a Reader in History at the University of Southampton. He is the author of Surviving Climate Change (Pluto, 2007).