Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

Gelbspan, Ross

ISBN 10: 046502761X / ISBN 13: 9780465027613

Published by Basic Books, 2004

About this Item

Type: Hardback Third Printing of First Edition Hardcover Book and Dust Jacket As New. Ross Gelbspan reports on the highest stakes issue of our time; he cuts through the half-hearted proposals of our politicians and clearly elucidates just how desperate our situation really is. As he describes, it is far more than an environmental problem. The climate crisis the world faces requires a new global cooperation of unprecedented levels, if we are to save a world for future generations--and indeed make it livable for current peoples of the planet earth. xvii + 254 pages with Notes and Index. 5.75 x 8.5 inches. 2004, Basic Books, New York, New York, USA.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster
• Publisher: Basic Books
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 046502761X
• ISBN 13: 9780465027613
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Environment, Conservation, Ecology

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Synopsis

From a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a shocking expos of the forces that perpetuate the crisis of global warming- with a prescription for saving the planet. In Boiling Point , Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ross Gelbspan argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions-denial and delay-has now grown into a crime against humanity. Gelbspan's previous book, The Heat Is On, exposed the financing of climate-change skeptics by the oil and coal companies. In Boiling Point , he reveals exactly how the fossil fuel industry is directing the Bush administration's energy and climate policies -payback for helping Bush get elected. Even more surprisingly, Gelbspan points a finger at both the media and environmental activists for unwittingly worsening the crisis. Finally, he offers a concrete plan for averting a full-blown climate catastrophe. According to Gelbspan, a proper approach to climate change could solve many other problems in our social, political, and economic lives. It would dramatically reduce our reliance on oil, and with it our exposure to instability in the Middle East. It would create millions of jobs and raise living standards in poor countries whose populations are affected by climate-driven disease epidemics and whose borders are overrun by environmental refugees. It would also expand the global economy and lead to a far wealthier and more peaceful world. A passionate call-to-arms and a thoughtful roadmap for change, Boiling Point reveals what's at stake for our fragile planet.

About the Author

Ross Gelbspan has been an editor and reporter at The Village Voice, and The Washington Post. He covered the U.N. Conference on the Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and addressed the World Economic Forum in Davos in 1998. As special projects editor of The Boston Globe, he conceived, directed and edited a series of articles that won a Pulitzer Prize in 1984.