The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth by Eric Pooley (Author). In The Local weather Conflict, Eric Pooley–deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek–does for global warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale of an American civil conflict, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the hearts and minds of an important gamers in the struggle to cap international warming pollution–a combat through which trillions of dollars and the destiny of the planet are at stake.
Why has it been so laborious for America to come to grips with local weather change? Why do so many people believe it isn’t actually occurring? As President Obama’s science advisor John Holdren has said, “We’re driving in a automotive with dangerous brakes in a fog and heading for a cliff. We all know for positive that cliff is out there. We simply don’t know precisely where it is. Prudence would counsel that we should start placing on the brakes.” However highly effective interests are threatened by the carbon cap that might velocity the transition to a clean vitality economy, and their agents have labored successfully to deny the issue and delay the solutions.
To write down this e book, Pooley, the previous managing editor of Fortune and chief political correspondent for Time, spent three years embedded with a rare solid of characters: from the flamboyant head of one of the nation’s largest coal-burning power firms to the pushed environmental leader who made frequent trigger with him, from main scientists warning of impending catastrophe to professional skeptics disputing almost each side of local weather science, from radical activists chaining themselves to bulldozers to powerful lobbyists, media gurus, and advisors in Obama’s West Wing–and, to high it off, unprecedented access to former Vice President Al Gore and his crew of local weather activists.
Pooley captures the quiet dedication and even heroism of local weather campaigners who have devoted their lives to an uphill battle that’s nonetheless raging today. He asks whether or not we’ve what it takes to protect our planet’s habitability, and reveals how America’s climate warfare sends shock waves from Bali to Copenhagen. No other reporter enjoys such access to this solid of characters. No different ebook covers this terrain. From the trenches of a North Carolina power plant to the battlefields of Capitol Hill, Madison Avenue, and Wall Road, The Local weather Warfare is the important learn for anybody who desires to grasp the gamers and politics behind crucial situation we face today.
PRAISE FOR THE CLIMATE WAR
“Eric Pooley has written a riveting tale, the very first account of the epic American marketing campaign to get severe about world warming. This story has heroes, like my pal Al Gore, and it has some villains. What it would not have is an ending; that part continues to be as much as us. Which is why anyone who worries about the future of our nation–or wonders why it has been so hard for us to cope with climate change–ought to read this book.”
–President Bill Clinton.
“The Climate Warfare affords a behind-the-scenes have a look at probably the most consequential political battle of our time. It is a compelling–and infrequently disturbing–read.”
–Elizabeth Kolbert, Author of Subject Notes from a Catastrophe.
“Within the ever-expanding literature on local weather change, this is the first e-book to place a human face on the issue by stepping into the heads of the people who are making an attempt to unravel it, deftly revealing the messy entanglement of idealism and realism that finally ends in progress.”
–Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and International Affairs, Princeton College.
“If the science is so clear and compelling–the way in which we use energy is dangerously overheating the planet–the how come it is so agonizingly difficult for America to face details and lead the way towards a worldwide resolution? Finally, I’ve a good suggestion why, because of Eric Pooley’s lucid chronicle of the lengthy-working struggles–political, private and above all, economic–to outline the world that our children and grandchildren will inhabit.”
–Kurt Andersen, Author of Heyday and Reset and Host of public radio’s “Studio 360″.
“The first nice campaign e book concerning the political battle over local weather change. Eric Pooley brings us inside this epic struggle through which science, enterprise, and politics all come together. The characters are fascinating and the stakes are enormous.”
–Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute and Writer of Einstein: His Life and Universe.
“The legislative course of revealed: Eric Pooley paints the personalities, the strategies, and the intrigue of local weather politics in vivid detail. A web page turner and a should-learn for anybody who cares concerning the local weather, and about America’s continued means to deal with problems and lead.”
–Katie McGinty, Former Chair, White Home Council on Environmental High quality.
“Eric Pooley’s The Climate Struggle is a painstakingly researched account of how climate change grew to turn into one of many defining political problems with a generation. As progressives in America and around the globe combat to go off climate catastrophe, Pooley’s book presents a a lot-wanted historical past of the marketing campaign for local weather safety, and reminds us, as soon as again, why urgent motion is so necessary.”
–John Podesta, President and CEO Center for American Progress.
“The Local weather Struggle is a great e-book not simply because it chronicles the bloody political combat to save lots of the planet, but as a result of it’s the most effective argument I’ve ever read for how a single coverage thought–cap and trade–can change the world.”
–Jeff Goodell, Author of The way to Cool the Planet.
“Journalism with ideas: epic in scale, masterful in narrative and element, with well-paced winks on the tragic absurdity of it all.”
–Eric Roston, Writer of The Carbon Age.
I am not one to repeat what different reviewers have said. Reasonably, I’ll strive to reply to just a few points made elsewhere, and provides my very own take on this book.
Too long? No way. Although there are numerous pages (about 400 within the body of the book) it’s never boring, nor repetitive. Biased? Not more than some books on policy, and probably much less than most. Pooley gives us the views of many alternative interests.
Finally, this is not just another ebook by an advocate or ivory-tower intellectual. Sure there are ideas and ideologies here, however at all times in the context of the true world – in pressure with different ideas and ideologies and with occasions and personalities in numerous sectors of the public. This isn’t as much an thought ebook as a narrative of many ideas at play in the true-world of coverage-making and the economy.
Undoubtedly value studying and, apart from the seriousness of the issues, enjoyable.
A tremendous account of the newest push for federal local weather legislation. Needs to be required studying for all those focused on combating for a climate bill and all those who think that the problem is simply a Democrat v. Republican issue (It isn’t! Just as a lot about regional politics and interests.). Pooley is a masterful reporter and writer.
The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth
Eric Pooley (Author)
496 pages
Hyperion (June 8, 2010)
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