This volume sets out to demonstrate the author's position that the continued use of nuclear power is essential to climate change mitigation and also to develop an understanding of the complexities and challenges posed by the nuclear power option. For many countries, the Fukushim…
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A comprehensive look at communication and social change specifically targeted to climate change. The book will be of interest to academic researchers and professionals in climate change, environmental policy, science communication, psychology, sociology and geography.
"Environmentalists often predict an Apocalypse is coming. The earth will heat up like a greenhouse. We will run out of energy. Overpopulation will lead to starvation and war. Nuclear winter will kill all plants and animals. During the past fifty to one hundred years, Americans h…
"The atmosphere is getting fat on our carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions and it needs our help. We live in a world of excess, consuming too much of everything - food, clothes, cars, toys, shoes, bricks, and mortar. Our bingeing is often so extreme that it threatens our ow…
'Understanding that global warming is real and must be dealt with is a critical first step but this does not fix the problem. The Climate Diet is filled with practical advice on what to do next-how to reduce the climate change our children will have to endure and how in many cas…
In an effort to rethink our responses to the crisis of global warming, a small but increasingly influential group of scientists is exploring proposals for planned human intervention in the climate system: a stratospheric veil against the sun, the cultivation of photosynthetic pl…