Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse / David - Index of
Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse / David - Index of
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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