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Buddhism, 180, 201 dialogue across, 134 dispensation of, 133–34 extremists in, 134 Lincoln’s use of, 89–90 renewable energy technologies, 104, 150, 188, 223n19 Republicans Christians and, 127–28, 130–31 politics of, 67–68, 75, 127–28, 130–31 resilience creation of, 42, 56 improvement of, 174–75 Revelation, 129, 132 revolution climate destabilization and, 206 design, 56–57 kindness, 180 Robinson, Beatrice, 210 Roddick, Anita, 180 Rogers, Carl, 166 Roosevelt, Franklin, 17, 66, 92–94, 99, 104 Roosevelt, Theodore, 96, 100, 108, 210 Rossiter, Clinton, 65–66 Roszak, Theodore, 169 Sabato, Larry, 207 Safi na, Carl, 137 Samons, Loren, 51 A Sand County Almanac (Leopold), 76 Santa Clara County v. Southern Pacifi c Railroad, 208 Schell, Jonathan, 73, 194 Schlesinger, Arthur, 93 Schneider, Stephen, 218 Schumacher, E. F., 194 Schumpeter, Joseph, 51, 69 science, larger context of, 137 Scofi eld Reference Bible, 129 sea levels, rising, 18–19, 32, 44, 113 Sebald, W. G., 111 index S 259 Second Nature, 227n4 Seed, Jonathan, 138 self-fulfi lling prophecies, 167 self-infl icted extinction, 73 self-refl ection, 163 Senge, Peter, 38, 41 September 11, 2001, 15–16 sequestration, carbon, 101, 224n20 Shakespeare, William, 148–49 Sharlet, Jeff, 129–30 Sharp, Gene, 201 Shenkman, Rick, 51 shifting baselines, 34 “Should Trees Have Standing?” (Stone), 208 Shuman, Michael, 201 Sider, Ronald, 128 Silent Spring (Carson), 79 Simon, Stuart, 127 Sinsheimer, Robert, x slavery fossil fuels and, 227n2 framing of, 85, 87–92 Lincoln and, 84–89 slow economy, 80–81 Smith, Adam, xvi Snyder, Gary, 48, 160–61 societal collapse, 54–55 Soddy, Frederick, 82–83 Solow, Robert, 105 Sophocles, 124 Spadaro, Jack, 113–16 sprawling development, 43–44, 106 steady-state economy, 30, 224n22 Steinbeck, John, 181 Steindl-Rast, Brother David, 149 Stern, Nicholas, 19 Stiglitz, Joseph, 56, 195 Stone, Christopher, 208 Strauss, Leo, 187 Stringfellow, William, 133 Supreme Court, 208, 227n1 Surowiecki, James, 60
260 S index sustainable development challenge of, 161 community characteristics in, 191 connectedness and, 170 Council on, xvii crisis of, 189 essence of, 127 global debate about, 121–22, 125, 137 meaning of, 30, 125 paying for, 212 Swimme, Brian, 137, 145–46 takings, of property, 46–47 Taleb, Nassim, 167 talk radio, 62–63 Tasch, Woody, 81 technological fundamentalism, 192 technology climate destabilization and, xiii–xiv faith in, xvi, 22, 64, 158–59, 206 insanity of, 194 morality and, 162 renewable energy, 104, 150, 188, 223n19 Teicher, Martin, 166 Telecommunications Act of 1996, 63 temperature, increase in, 18–19, 223n9 carbon cycle feedbacks and, 3, 222n2 in 1980s, 216–19 tipping point of, 222n4 terrorism age of, 195 Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction, Proliferation, and Terrorism and, 223n15 costs of, 31 nuclear power and, 158, 224n224 on September 11, 2001, 15, 37 thermal lag, 18 thermodynamics, laws of, 192 13th Amendment, 91 Thomas, Helen, 225n8 Thoreau, Henry David, 206 Tidwell, Mike, 112 Todd, John, 71 Todorov, Tzvetan, 162, 169 totalitarianism, inverted, 17 “The Tragedy of the Commons” (Hardin), 52 transactional leadership, 168 transformational leadership, xvii, 9 of Lincoln, 89 paradigm shift of, 211 task of, 173–74 transactional leadership v., 168 vision of, 190–91 transformative nonviolence, 199–202 tropical diseases, 18, 20–21 Tutu, Desmond, 210 Unamuno, Miguel de, 123 unitary executive theory, 15–16 United States. See also Constitution, U.S. age of unreason in, 50 antigovernment tradition of, 16, 41, 224n26 Bill of Rights of, 13, 16–17, 52 blowback infl uencing, 24–25 Civil War of, 86–87, 91 Depression of, 93–94 domestic problems of, 26–27 Environmental Protection Agency of, 207 Federal Emergency Management Agency of, 38 fossil fuel dependency of, 23–24 Geological Survey of, 209 ineffi ciency and despotism in, 16 leaders of, 2, 6–7
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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 ii z CONNECTIONS
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chapter 4 The Carbon Connection Com
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the carbon connection S 113 If this
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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 163 rapid destabi
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millennial hope S 165 Conformity to
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millennial hope S 169 in human beha
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millennial hope S 171 Maslow (1971)
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millennial hope S 173 addiction and
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millennial hope S 175 networks, are
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millennial hope S 177 United States
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millennial hope S 179 with fewer hi
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chapter 7 Hope at the End of Our Te
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