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

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