Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse / David - Index of
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notes <strong>to</strong> pages 149-213<br />
9. For those o<strong>the</strong>r practitioners who have forgotten <strong>the</strong> list, <strong>the</strong>y are pride,<br />
greed, lust, anger, envy, sloth, and glut<strong>to</strong>ny.<br />
Chapter 6<br />
1. James Lovelock (1998 and 2006) is among <strong>the</strong> very few <strong>to</strong> conjecture about<br />
how <strong>to</strong> convey <strong>the</strong> rudiments <strong>of</strong> science and civilization in a durable and<br />
usable form <strong>to</strong> those living on <strong>the</strong> o<strong>the</strong>r side <strong>of</strong> a <strong>collapse</strong>d civilization.<br />
Chapter 7<br />
1. See Nor<strong>to</strong>n (2004).<br />
2. Read political philosopher Brian Berry’s compelling case for justice in a<br />
greenhouse world, titled “Justice or Bust” (2005, pp. 260–273).<br />
3. This phrase is adapted from Wells (1946). Wells wrote: “This world is at <strong>the</strong><br />
end <strong>of</strong> its te<strong>the</strong>r. The end <strong>of</strong> everything we call life is close at hand and cannot<br />
be evaded” (p. 1).<br />
Chapter 8<br />
1. The U.S. Supreme Court is apparently losing a large share <strong>of</strong> its international<br />
audience who fi nd its decisions, perhaps, <strong>to</strong>o ideological, alo<strong>of</strong>, formulaic,<br />
and remote from lived reality. See Liptak (2008).<br />
2. It is worth studying <strong>the</strong> similarities between slavery and our use <strong>of</strong> fossil<br />
fuels as a matter <strong>of</strong> intergenerational law. See for example, <strong>David</strong> Orr, “2020:<br />
A Proposal,” in Orr (2002), pp. 143–151, and Mouhot (2008).<br />
3. Robert Ornstein and Paul Ehrlich once proposed <strong>the</strong> creation <strong>of</strong> a “foresight<br />
institute” charged with evaluation <strong>of</strong> long-term trends and <strong>the</strong>ir consequences:<br />
Ornstein and Ehrlich (1989).<br />
4. With <strong>the</strong> leadership <strong>of</strong> Tony Cortese and his staff at Second Nature, hundreds<br />
<strong>of</strong> colleges and universities, including Oberlin, have responded <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong><br />
challenge by signing commitments <strong>to</strong> move <strong>to</strong>ward carbon neutrality and<br />
are taking steps <strong>to</strong> reduce <strong>the</strong> use <strong>of</strong> fossil fuels. Reaching <strong>the</strong> goal <strong>of</strong> carbon<br />
neutrality will be easier where sunlight and hydropower are abundant and<br />
more diffi cult in regions like our own that are highly dependent on coal.<br />
In any event, <strong>the</strong> case for moving rapidly <strong>to</strong>ward levels <strong>of</strong> energy effi ciency<br />
that lower carbon emissions includes lower costs as <strong>the</strong> price <strong>of</strong> fossil energy<br />
rises, resilience in <strong>the</strong> face <strong>of</strong> price shocks and supply interruptions, and <strong>the</strong><br />
moral obligation not <strong>to</strong> damage <strong>the</strong> world in which our graduates and our<br />
children will live.<br />
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