The heat is on
Subtitle: the climate crisis, the cover-up, the prescription
By: Ross Gelbspan.
Edition: Updated ed.
Publisher: Perseus Books
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Reading, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 278
Subjects: Global warming -- Government policy; Energy industries -- Political activity; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- Government policy; Global warming -- Government policy -- United States; Energy industries -- Political activity -- United States; Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- Government policy -- United States
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.