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Record Nr.

UNINA9910585962703321

Autore

Jaccard Mark Kenneth

Titolo

The citizen's guide to climate success : overcoming myths that hinder progress / / Mark Jaccard [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge University Press, 2020

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2020

ISBN

1-108-78800-9

1-108-80218-4

1-108-78345-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 292 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Social Sciences

Disciplina

363.738/74

Soggetti

Energy policy

Climatic changes - Government policy

Environmental policy

Environmental responsibility

Sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Feb 2020).

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- Half-title page -- Reviews -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1 The Role of Myths in Our Climate-Energy Challenge -- Chapter 2 The Art of Deluding Ourselves and Others -- Chapter 3 Climate Scientists Are Conspirators -- Chapter 4 All Countries Will Agree on Climate Fairness -- Chapter 5 This Fossil Fuel Project Is Essential -- Chapter 6 We Must Price Carbon Emissions -- Chapter 7 Peak Oil Will Get Us First Anyway -- Chapter 8 We Must Change Our Behavior -- Chapter 9 We Can Be Carbon Neutral -- Chapter 10 Energy Efficiency Is Profitable -- Chapter 11 Renewables Have Won -- Chapter 12 We Must Abolish Capitalism -- Chapter 13 The Simple Path to Success with Our Climate-Energy Challenge -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Sometimes solving climate change seems impossibly complex, and it is hard to know what changes we all can and should make to help. This book offers hope. Drawing on the latest research, Mark Jaccard shows



us how to recognize the absolutely essential actions (decarbonizing electricity and transport) and policies (regulations that phase out coal plants and gasoline vehicles, carbon tariffs). Rather than feeling paralyzed and pursuing ineffective efforts, we can all make a few key changes in our lifestyles to reduce emissions, to contribute to the urgently needed affordable energy transition in developed and developing countries. More importantly, Jaccard shows how to distinguish climate-sincere from insincere politicians and increase the chance of electing and sustaining these leaders in power. In combining the personal and the political, The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success offers a clear and simple strategic path to solving the greatest problem of our times. A PDF version of this title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core at doi.org/10.1017/9781108783453.