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Milgram, Stanley, 165 militarization, 193 The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment Report, 22, 26, 61–62 Monbiot, George, 103 Moore, Barrington, 162 morale, 35, 99 morality, 126, 161–62 Morgenthau, Hans, 196 Moses, 132 mountaintop removal, 119 Mount St. Helens, 216 Nanking, 169 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 47, 222n2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency, 209 national planning, 47 natural capitalism, 57–60 Natural Capitalism (Hawken, Lovins, and Lovins), 31 nature defi cit disorder, 178–79 Nazism, 133, 169, 179 neoconservatism, 66, 177, 199 NEPA. See National Environmental Policy Act New Orleans, 111–12, 120, 124–25 New World, discovery of, 49–50 The Next Catastrophe (Perrow), 175 Niebuhr, Reinhold, 181 Niemöller, Martin, 133 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 161 Night Comes to the Cumberlands (Caudill), 115 nonlinear systems, complexity of, 194 nonviolence ahimsa, 199, 201 in economy, 202 Gandhi and, 199–201 philosophy, strategy, and tactics of, 201–2 transformative, 199–202 nuclear power civil liberty implications of, 224n224 costs of, 28–29, 101 desubsidized, 210 terrorism and, 158, 224n224 Obama, Barack agenda of, 67 defi cits faced by, 203–4 fi rst hundred days of, 97–98 leadership of, 94–99, 108 money in politics and, 104 transition team of, xvii, 97, 206 Oberlin College, 212–13, 227n4 Oedipus, 124 oil desubsidized, 210 extraction of, 22–24, 121 Ophuls, William, 52–53 optimism grounds for, 156–57, 174 hope v., 181–82, 184–85 about human species, 126–27 irrational, 182 pessimism masquerading as, 186 Our Final Hour (Rees), 1 overburden, 114 Overshoot (Catton), 81–82 Ozarks, 217–18 peak oil extraction, 22–24 peer pressure, 164–65 Pentagon budget, 210 Perrow, Charles, 175 Plains Tribes, 173 planetary immune system, xiv–xv planned unit development, 43 Platt, John, 55 Plenty Coups, 173 politics Christianity in, 128, 130–32 index S 257
258 S index politics (continued) climate destabilization response of, 2, 4–7 communication substance and style in, 99–100 Congressional, executive power and, 222n4 corporations infl uencing, 225n31 Democrats in, 68, 75 Enlightenment infl uencing, 205 money in, 104 presidential commission for changes in, 207–9 reform of, 177–78 Republicans in, 67–68, 75, 127–28, 130–31 transformation of, 205 population size, 26, 157 Porritt, Jonathon, 36–37 positive feedbacks, 20 Posner, Richard, 69–70 post-carbon prosperity, 212, 214 posterity in Constitution, 72 defenders of, 75 protection of, 68, 71–76 Postman, Neil, 171 post–World War II world, 193, 196 Potter, David, 71 powerdown, 24 president as educator-in-chief, 211 executive power of, 15–16, 94–95, 222n4 Presidential Climate Action Project, 206 presidential commission, for governance, politics, and law changes, 207–9 press. See also media freedom of, 61, 190 Iraq invasion and, 61, 225n8 Primack, Joel, 145 procrastination penalty, 19 productive capital, 59 progress trap, 148 property law, 44–48 psychology codes of conduct and, 170–71 limitations of, 167–68 public airwaves, 100, 178, 210 public awareness of climate destabilization, 5, 9, 100 gradualism in, 187–88 happy news and, 185–86 leadership and, 189–90 level of, 21 panic and, 187 responsibility of, 7 shared national agenda and, 71 technical knowledge needed for, 192 public order governance and, 39–42 testing of, 54 Rabe, John, 169 radical hope, 173 radio, 62–63 Rawls, John, 145 Reagan, Ronald, 108, 131 realism of change’s scale and pace, 198–99 diluted, 186, 188 idealism v., 196 neoconservative, 199 reciprocity, 150 Rees, Martin, 1 Refl ections on the Causes of Human Misery (Moore), 162 refugees, climate, xi, 19–20, 32 Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, 188 religion. See also Christianity
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Down to the Wire
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Down to the Wire Confronting Climat
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For my grandchildren Lewis, Molly,
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Contents Preface ix Acknowledgments
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z Preface The ongoing disruption of
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preface S xi carbon footprint from
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preface S xiii disappearing species
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preface S xv breach between humanki
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preface S xvii country. And for no
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z Acknowledgments This book owes mu
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Down to the Wire
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Introduction There were rumors of u
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introduction S 3 preindustrial leve
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introduction S 5 have household, au
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introduction S 7 • Did little to
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introduction S 9 the leadership tha
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part 1 z POLITICS AND GOVERNANCE
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chapter 1 Governance We lack a theo
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governance S 15 regard for long-ter
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governance S 17 culture celebrated
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governance S 19 headlines of the fu
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governance S 21 excessive heat and
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governance S 23 extract, refi ne, t
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governance S 25 access to oil in or
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governance S 27 has been increased
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governance S 29 • Costs to human
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governance S 31 to the evidence of
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governance S 33 which may occur reg
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governance S 35 line. I write in th
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governance S 37 chairman of the U.K
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governance S 39 accountability. Onc
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governance S 41 secrecy, and incomp
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governance S 45 of his persuasion i
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governance S 47 one of whom does no
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chapter 2 Late-Night Thoughts about
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part iii z FARTHER HORIZONS
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chapter 6 Millennial Hope The gods
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millennial hope S 157 carbon cycle,
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millennial hope S 165 Conformity to
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millennial hope S 171 Maslow (1971)
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