| The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription Updated Edition Contributor(s): Gelbspan, Ross (Author) |
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ISBN: 0738200255 ISBN-13: 9780738200255 Publisher: Basic Books OUR PRICE: $21.77 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 1998 Annotation: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan exposes the machinations of oil and coal companies and conservative politicians to undermine the public confidence in science and thereby defer action against global warming. This riveting expose is a spirited call to action against the corporate disinformation campaign that threatens us all. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Weather - Science | Environmental Science (see Also Chemistry - Environmental) |
| Dewey: 363.738 |
| LCCN: 98086419 |
| Lexile Measure: 1350 |
| Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.44" W x 8.4" (0.74 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |