The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, ...
Read More
The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, sportsmen, business owners, or farmers. Johansen--assisted by climatologist James Hansen's foreword and appendix--gives general readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the most rational and ethical green choices. Dovetailing the personal with the technological and public-policy dimensions, this book lays out the whole battery of existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming. These range from the humdrum and easy (keeping your tires properly inflated), through the necessary and hard (retooling the ways you transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency and minimum carbon footprint). They also encompass the possible (switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and geothermal power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting mirrors in space), as well as the weird and dangerous (pumping sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere).
Read Less
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a to cart. $5.00, very good condition, Sold by JDH Lawton OK rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from LAWTON, OK, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Praeger.
Choose your shipping method in Checkout. Costs may vary based on destination.
Seller's Description:
Very good in very good dust jacket. Ex-library. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 226 p. Contains: Figures. Audience: General/trade. LCCN 2008008987 Type of material Book Personal name Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott), 1950-Main title The global warming combat manual: solutions for a sustainable world / Bruce E. Johansen; foreword by James E. Hansen. Published/Created Westport, Conn: Praeger Publishers, c2008. Description xxv, 226 p. : ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780313352867 (alk. paper) 0313352860 (alk. paper) LC classification TD171.7. J64 2008 Contents Our cars are killing us: options in personal transport--Avoiding our "suicide pact" with aviation--Greening shelter and food--Biofuels: where the money is--The power forecast is windy--Harvesting the sun--Old wine in new bottles: nuclear power and changes in land use--The political economy of global warming--Technofixes. LC Subjects Environmental protection--Citizen participation. Global warming--Prevention--Citizen participation. Notes Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-207) and index. Dewey class no. 333.79 National bib no. GBA858962 National bib agency no. 014595705 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn212410205 (OCoLC)212410205 Invalid system no. (OCoLC)192081638
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a to cart. $18.23, very good condition, Sold by Suffolk Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from center moriches, NY, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Praeger.
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual to cart. $31.54, new condition, Sold by Media Smart rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hawthorne, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by ABC-Clio, Incorporated.
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a to cart. $43.08, new condition, Sold by discount_scientific_books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sterling Heights, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Praeger.
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a to cart. $44.90, new condition, Sold by discount_scientific_books rated 3.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Sterling Heights, MI, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Praeger.
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a to cart. $59.05, new condition, Sold by Ingram Customer Returns Center rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from NV, USA, published 2008 by Praeger.
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual: Solutions for a to cart. $70.03, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Newport Coast, CA, UNITED STATES, published 2008 by Praeger.
Add this copy of The Global Warming Combat Manual to cart. $74.25, new condition, Sold by Ria Christie Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Uxbridge, MIDDLESEX, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2008 by Praeger.
The Global Warming Combat Manual by Bruce Johansen is posssibly the MOST IMPORTANT BOOK YOU WILL READ THIS CENTURY. Not only does it provide the scary truth in layman's terms, but also it explains why turning out the lights and inflating your tires will really help, even though it's by far not enough change. Americans must stop building new coal fueled power plants. Get active and protest and elect politicians who will not bow down to Big Coal.
