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    [synopsis] => This book provides the most comprehensive briefing or tutorial on the global-warming or climate-change situation available in any one place today because it covers not only the scientific and technical side of this issue but also the human, economic and political sides. It describes global warming and humanity's response to it from a multidisciplinary systems viewpoint, where the total system is comprised of Earth's natural systems interacting with human social, economic, and political systems. It posits that the main problem today is not global warming per se but rather that we, and especially our Federal government, aren't taking it seriously enough.

Part A describes the technical aspects of the problem. It covers the causes and impacts of global warming, and some of the still inadequate national and international attempts to limit it by reducing greenhouse gas emissions. It shows how inadequate they've been. It describes the various technical ways to reduce emissions. It describes and then raises concerns about critical remedies like growing crops for producing electricity and sequestering the resulting CO2 deep underground; massively deploying solar power; and offsetting aircraft emissions by reforestation. It summarizes and more clearly explains the mitigation pathways that the UN's International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says humanity must follow to keep warming below the recommended limit of +1.5 degrees C. It highlights the central role of the carbon budget, which will be fully expended in just the next ten years unless we rapidly cut annual CO2 emissions about 40 % by 2030. It describes issues in creating national carbon budgets. It discusses the various Federal strategies like carbon taxes or caps that must be implemented to make this happen, plus quotes industry resistance. It notes that despite 40 years of advanced warning the US government has -incredibly- no commitment to fight climate change much less any detailed plan for doing so. With over 180 charts and numerous quotes from various sources, it's a resource for facts.

Part B is an in-depth analysis of the psychological, social, economic and political reasons why we aren't taking the problem seriously, plus some ideas for overcoming them. It addresses why today's societal systems are dysfunctional in countering the threat of warming. It quotes survey results to help explain why individuals don't yet take global warming seriously enough. It describes industry resistance. It explains how President Trump is the main bottleneck to progress and is engaged in "wrong thinking". It argues that concentration of power in just one person is dangerous in the face of complex global threats. A partial remedy based on the role of the Congressional Budget Office is suggested. For the first time this book proposes that a serious effort to fight global warming offers a massive opportunity to help remedy a number of social and national ills like hate, nationalism, and excessive international competition in non-obvious ways tied to the Maslow hierarchy of needs; such as the needs for pride, belonging and security. It discusses why good presidential leadership is vital and how the legacies of national presidents as well as our personal legacies will be determined by how well they and we fight this existential threat. Finally, it suggests that how humans engage with global warming in the decades ahead will become humanity's greatest drama, ending in either triumph or tragedy.

This book is intended for thoughtful, analytically minded individuals who just want to understand this issue. But it also contains ideas and recommendations that could be acted upon by climate organizations, journalists, policymakers and those outside government who have the capability to make things happen.
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    [subtitle] => The technical, social, economic and political actions needed to defeat climate change
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