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250 S index<br />

blowback, 24<br />

Bonhoeffer, Dietrich, 133<br />

Boserup, Anders, 201<br />

bottleneck era, x–xi, xv, 75, 157<br />

Boulding, Kenneth, 72<br />

Bowen, Bill, 218<br />

Brandeis, Justice Louis, 49<br />

Branson, Richard, 210<br />

Brittle Power (Lovins and Lovins), 175<br />

Broecker, Wallace, 188<br />

Brown, Harrison, 175<br />

Brown, Peter, 48<br />

Buckley v. Valeo, 63<br />

Buddhism, 180, 201<br />

bully pulpit, 100, 108, 210<br />

Burke, Edmund, 72<br />

Burns, James MacGregor, 168<br />

Bush, George H. W., 122<br />

Bush, George W., xvii, 114<br />

Christianity and, 130–31<br />

executive power <strong>of</strong>, 94–96<br />

legacy <strong>of</strong>, 67<br />

September 11 response <strong>of</strong>, 15–16<br />

business leadership, 226n2<br />

Butler, George Lee, 202<br />

cancer, 172<br />

cap and trade bill, 188<br />

capital, 59<br />

capitalism<br />

Christianity and, 127<br />

environmentally constructive,<br />

57–60<br />

failure <strong>of</strong>, 177<br />

human prospects and, 224n27<br />

natural, 57–60<br />

carbon<br />

coal and, 120–21<br />

cycle feedbacks, 3, 222n2<br />

neutrality, 191, 227n4<br />

post-carbon prosperity and, 212,<br />

214<br />

sequestration <strong>of</strong>, 101, 224n20<br />

trap, x–xi<br />

carbon dioxide<br />

current levels <strong>of</strong>, 112<br />

reduced emissions <strong>of</strong>, 27–28, 206<br />

“safe” threshold <strong>of</strong>, 19<br />

carrying capacity, 192<br />

Carson, Rachel, 79, 137<br />

Carter, Jimmy, xi, 23, 210<br />

Catastrophe (Posner), 69<br />

Cat<strong>to</strong>n, William, 81–82<br />

Caudill, Harry, 115<br />

Cheney, Dick, 67, 94–95<br />

Chester<strong>to</strong>n, G. K., 126<br />

Chicago, 188<br />

childhood, 166<br />

Christianity<br />

capitalism and, 127<br />

fundamentalism in, 127–36<br />

in politics, 128, 130–32<br />

Republicans and, 127–28, 130–31<br />

Churchill, Wins<strong>to</strong>n, 34, 49, 75, 99<br />

Civilian Conservation Corps, 104<br />

Civil War, U.S., 86–87, 91<br />

Cizik, Richard, 128<br />

Clean Air Act, 130<br />

“clean coal,” 29, 101, 119–20<br />

Clean Water Act, 130<br />

<strong>climate</strong> destabilization<br />

challenges <strong>of</strong>, 17–27, 40<br />

consequences <strong>of</strong>, 18, 44, 182–83<br />

conservative intellectuals<br />

recognizing, 69–70<br />

control over, 204<br />

crisis <strong>of</strong>, 6–9, 26–27<br />

as cultural pathology symp<strong>to</strong>m,<br />

124, 160, 163, 188–89<br />

experts’ opinions on, 183<br />

framing <strong>of</strong>, 88–92<br />

global warming v., 182–83<br />

immediate steps for, 159<br />

implications <strong>of</strong>, 27–35<br />

inertial momentum <strong>of</strong>, 155–56<br />

intergenerational costs <strong>of</strong>, 72–73

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