The climate cure
Subtitle: solving the climate emergency in the era of COVID-19
By: Tim Flannery
Publisher: Text Publishing
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Melbourne, Victoria
Language: eng
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9781922330352
Copyright date: 2020
Subjects: Climatic changes; Government policy; Effect of human beings on; Climate change mitigation; Global warming; Renewable energy sources
Description: Emergencies test governments, organisations and individuals. Although Australia's prompt, science-led response to COVID-19 has not been perfect, it has saved tens of thousands of lives. But for decades, governments have ignored, ridiculed or understated the advice of scientists on the climate emergency. Now, in the wake of the megafires of 2020, a time of reckoning has arrived. In The Climate Cure renowned climate scientist Tim Flannery takes aim at those responsible for the campaign of obfuscation and denial that has already cost so many Australian lives and held back action on climate change. Flannery demands a new approach, based on the nation's response to COVID-19, that will lead to effective government policies. The Climate Cure is an action plan for our future. We face a fork in the road, and must decide now between catastrophe and survival.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The great Australian tragedy. A history of folly; title: How Australian government policy is making things worse; title: The balance of probabilities: it's worse than you think; title: Megafire; title: The decade of consequences; title: Who does what when governments fail?; title: The three-part cure. Stemming the spread; title: An Australian coal compromise; title: Clean industrial energy; title: Cutting off fossil fuel's support network; title: Hydrogen; title: Electric vehicles; title: Aviation and shipping; title: Leadership and cooperation in a global emergency; title: Adaptation; title: Drawdown: a vaccine for the fossil fuel pandemic.