Protecting the Planet by Titlow, Budd -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Page Contents Introduction PART ONE: CLIMATE CHANGE: NOW HUMANITY'S GREATEST ENVIRONMENTAL CHALLENGE

Chapter 1: What Exactly Is Climate Change? Chapter 2: What Is the History of Climate Change? Chapter 3: How Does Climate Change Occur? Chapter 4: What Is the Proof for Climate Change? Chapter 5: What Are the Current Impacts and Where Are They Occurring?

Melting Ice Sheets Disappearing Global Sea Ice Sea-Level Rise and Global Flooding

State of Florida Mississippi River Delta Venice, Italy Island Nations of the South Pacific Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna Delta in Bangladesh

Increased Storm Intensity

2013 Superstorm Sandy 2005 Hurricane Katrina 2013 Typhoon Haiyan 2015 Snowmageddon in Boston Worldwide Danger

Increased Wildfires and Other Forest Impacts

Loss of Permafrost Proliferation of Bark Beetles

Droughts and Famine Civil Wars and Revolutions International Security Threats Ecological Impacts

Inundation and Loss of Coastal Wetlands Ocean Acidification and Loss of Coral Reefs Saltwater Encroachment into Freshwater Systems

Fossil-Fuel Extraction Accidents

2010 BP Platform Explosion and Oil Gusher 2010 Massey Energy Coal Mine Explosion 2013 Lac Megantic Rail Disaster 2015 Santa Barbara Oil Spill Alberta Tar Sands: A Pending Disaster

Chapter 6: What Can We Do to Counteract Climate Change?

PART TWO: THE US ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT: A STORY FOR THE AGES: THE BEGINNING THROUGH 1968

Chapter 7: In the Beginning: An American Melodrama (~12,000 BCE to 1799)

The Bering Land Bridge and Native Americans Arrival of the European Colonists The Age of Enlightenment and Humanity's Dominion over Nature

Chapter 8: Manifest Destiny: Explore and Conquer (1800–1849)

Our Nation Expands Dramatically Where Are the Environmental Heroes? Finally—John James Audubon Go West, Young Man

Chapter 9: A Multiplicity of Heroes and the Civil War (1849–1869)

Transcendentalism: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau John Burroughs: Father of the Modern Nature Essay Frederick Law Olmsted: The World's First Landscape Architect Charles Darwin and His On the Origin of Species The Greenhouse Effect Identified: Again! Scourge of American History: The Civil War George Perkins Marsh: Telling It Like It Was The Homestead Act: A Precursor of Environmental Disaster Dr. Ernst Haeckel Introduces Ecology to the World

Chapter 10: The Rise of Industrial America: Progress or Perish (1870–1900)

The Second Industrial Revolution: Climate Change Gets Its Start Dedication of the World's First National Park Founding of the US Geological Survey (USGS) The Advent of Renewable Energy William Temple Hornaday Rescues the American Bison Yosemite National Park Becomes a Reality Creation of the Adirondack Park Preserve Arrhenius Provides First Evidence of Human-Caused Climate Change Harriett Lawrence Hemenway: High Society Goes to Bat for Birds US Supreme Court Seals the Deal: Upholding the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act

Chapter 11: Welcome to the Progressive Era (1901–1919)

Industrial Age Backlash Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt: The Conservation President Gifford Pinchot and the US Forest Service John Muir and His Battle for Yosemite Park Creation of the National Park Service Anna Botsford Comstock and Her Handbook of Nature Study The Passing of Martha: The World's Last Passenger Pigeon World War I: The Great War North America's Highest Peak Gets Its Due

Chapter 12: Watch Out: Here Come the Roaring Twenties (1920–1929)

Decade of Environmental Decay Izaak Walton League: America's First Mainstream Conservation Organization Ansel Adams: Landscape Photographer and Conservationist Supreme Robert “Bob” Marshall: Wilderness Was in His Blood

Chapter 13: Woe Is Us: The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl (1930–1939)

Black Tuesday and the Collapse of Wall Street FDR Comes to the Rescue The Dust Bowl Obliterates the North American Plains John Steinbeck: Prolific Author and Staunch Conservationist Roger Tory Peterson: Father of the Field Guide Ding Darling: The Man Who Saved Ducks The Callendar Effect Proves Global Warming

Chapter 14: Environmental Concerns Move to the Back Burner (1940–1959)

World War II and Two Days That Changed Our World Forever The Bureau of Land Management: Created to Control Grazing Rights Marjory Stoneman Douglas: Take Heed, Greedy Land Developers The Fierce Green Fire of Aldo Leopold The Rise of Suburbia and Further Decline of Environmental Concern Formation of the Nature Conservancy: A Positive Step Forward The Bureau of Reclamation: Watering the West Echo Park Dam: A Landmark Victory for Conservation David Brower: The Archdruid Himself Gilbert Plass: Father of Modern Greenhouse Gas Theory Hans Suess and Roger Revelle Support Plass The Keeling Curves

Chapter 15: Full Speed Ahead: Preparing for the Environmental Years (1960–1968)

The Sixties: Decade of Social Upheavals Rachel Carson: Hero above All Murray Bookchin: Thinking Ahead of His Time JFK: An Environmental Savant Gone Too Soon Stewart Udall: Conservation Master Scenic Hudson Decision: Setting a Legal Precedent for Environmentalism The Clean Air Act Hits the Hill The LBJs: Lyndon Baines and Lady Bird Howard Clinton Zahniser: Father of the Wilderness Act E. O. Wilson: Father of Biodiversity Paul Ehrlich and His Population Bomb

PART THREE: THE US ENVIRONMENTAL MOVEMENT: A STORY FOR THE AGES: 1969 THROUGH 2016

Chapter 16: The Environmental Heydays (1969–1979)

The Media Gets into the Act Arrival of the Brown Cloud: Retooling the US Auto Industry Meeting the Public's Demands: Fix Our Environment Now! The First Earth Day Leaves a Mighty Mark Tricky Dick Comes to the Rescue NEPA, CEQ, and the Birth of the EIS Russell Train: The First Guru of CEQ The Federal Endangered Species Act The Federal Clean Water Act The Coastal Zone Management Act Barry Commoner: The Paul Revere of Ecology Donella Meadows and Her Limits to Growth The Advent of Radical Environmentalism Edward Abbey: The Cutting Edge of the Radical Left Greenpeace Takes Center Stage Paul Watson and His Sea Shepherd Society Radical Tactics: To Use or Not to Use? The OPEC Oil Embargo: Fossil Fuels Take a Direct Hit Gerald Ford Tries to Turn Back the Clock The First Wave of Climate-Change Heroes: Broecker, Manabe, and Wetherald CFCs and the Ozone Hole: Direct Parallel with the Climate-Change Crisis? The Hazmat Battles Begin: Lois Marie Gibbs and Love Canal Nuclear Energy: The Renewable Debate Three Mile Island and the Fate of US Nuclear Energy The Environmental Movement Loses Its Edge A Georgia Peanut Farmer Assumes the Presidency

Chapter 17: The Reagan Years: Big Trouble for the Environment (1980–1987)

The Conservative Backlash Gutting the Regulatory System Watt and Gorsuch: Foxes Guarding the Henhouse The Moral Majority and the Christian Right Solar and Wind Take Flight The Rocky Mountain Institute Is Founded Sustainable Design: WRI, Ocean Arks International, and Gus Speth Paul Crutzen and the Concept of Nuclear Winter Thomas Lovejoy and Debt-for-Nature Swaps Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster Yes…We Can Pollute Our Oceans! Chico Mendes: Martyr of the Brazilian Rainforests

Chapter 18: The Climate-Change Debate Takes Off (1988–2000)

Global Warming and the Founding of the IPCC Stephen Schneider: Climate-Change Guru NASA's James Hansen: Yes, Climate Change Is for Real! And the Deniers Respond Acid Rain: Another Air-Quality Crisis Exxon Valdez and the Desecration of Alaska's Prince William Sound Famed Hollywood Producer Launches His Environmental Media Association The Clean Air Act: Regulatory Ambrosia for Climate Change? Climate Records Verify Global Warming 1992 Rio Earth Summit The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) The Clinton Presidency: High Hopes Dashed NAFTA: A Bad Environmental Idea Robert Bullard and the Environmental Justice Movement Onset of the Anthropocene Age Paul Hawken, Natural Capitalism, and Project Drawdown The 1997 Kyoto Protocol Environmental Concerns and Global Warming Make a Comeback Faith-Based Groups Jump on the Climate-Change Bandwagon Dawn of the Internet and the Global Communication Age Geoengineering: Creating a Global Sun Shield

Chapter 19: A Series of Unfortunate Events (2001–2005)

Bizarre Election of George W. Bush and Dick Cheney September 11th, Then Invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq Environmental Concerns Yield to Terrorist Fears Undoing the Environmental Regulatory Process and Promoting Fossil Fuels Killing the Climate-Change Buzz The Clear Skies Bill: Good, Bad, or Ugly? Europe's Devastating Heat Wave: 70,000 Dead Russia Ratifies Kyoto Protocol, Leaving the United States Out in the Cold The Horrors of Hurricane Katrina Broadcast on Live TV Stronger Storm Surges Associated with Sea-Level Rise The Halliburton Loophole: Fracking Gone Wild

Chapter 20: Climate Change Begins a Comeback (2005–2008)

James Balog and Chasing Ice Grassroots Leadership at the Megacity Level Michael Mann and the Hockey Stick Controversy Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth Melting of the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets Bill McKibben's Step It Up Campaign and the Birth of 350.org Green for All Comes Alive Hansen's Unsafe CO2 Reading Is Surpassed Tim DeChristopher's Bold Actions Lead to Founding of Peaceful Uprising

Chapter 21: Onset of a Social Revolution or Just Business as Usual? (2008–2016)

President Barack Obama: Environmental Godsend? Iconic Arctic Denizen Listed as a Threatened Species Antarctica's Wilkins Ice Shelf Collapses Cyclone Nargis Ravages Myanmar with 138,000 Fatalities Wall Street Bank Implosion Upstages Climate-Change Concerns Jeremy Grantham Founds His Research Institute Joe Romm's Climate Blog Hits the Big-Time The Climategate Controversy The World Welcomes an Evangelical Crusader for Climate Change High Hopes in Copenhagen (COP-15): Not So Fast! Deepwater Horizon: Fossil-Fuel Hazards Are on Full Display Merchants of Doubt Puts Everything into Perspective Josh Fox Produces His Documentary Film Gasland Fukushima Daiichi Power Plant Disaster: Another Nuclear Wake-Up Call The Keystone XL Pipeline: Icon of the Climate-Change Battle The Solutions Project: Does It Have All the Answers? Is Climate Change Linked to Severe Weather Events? A Surreal Heat Wave Greenland's Ice Sheet: Disappearing Fast Divest Harvard Finds a Beginning A Republican Congressman Makes a Climate-Change Sacrifice Superstorm Sandy Devastates the Northeast The Doomsday Clock: Ticking Closer to Midnight Oil-by-Rail: A Very Bad Idea Climate-Change Rallies Are Growing in Size Kolbert's The Sixth Extinction Points a Finger California Drought Burns On World Wildlife Disappearing at an Alarming Rate Renowned Director Commits to the Climate-Change Battle Fox Network Launches Cosmos Remake Featuring Neil deGrasse Tyson People's Climate March in NYC: Another World Record UN Climate Summit in New York City Naomi Klein's Bestseller Calls for Global Economic and Social Restructuring An Important Midterm Election Year Turns Sour for Climate Change Weather Records Continue to Heat Up G7 Summit Strikes Accord The Pope Himself Weighs In on Climate Change Environmental Visionary Creates Battery Backup for Renewable Energy Storage and Expands Market for Electric Cars Obama's Clean Power Plan COP-21 Takes Place in Paris, France The Breakthrough Energy Coalition Is Formed Senator Presents His 125th Consecutive Climate-Change Speech Best Actor Features Climate Change at the Oscars

Chapter 22: Where Does the Future Stand on Climate Change?

PART FOUR: ALL HAIL TODAY'S HEROES: WHO THEY ARE AND WHAT THEY HAVE DONE

Chapter 23: Scientists / Researchers

James Hansen: Pioneer / Communicator Thomas Lovejoy: Explorer / Originator Michael Mann: Theorist / Communicator Janine Benyus: Innovator / Connector Mark Jacobson: Innovator / Solver Katharine Hayhoe: Unifier / Trailblazer Susan Solomon: Solver / Communicator Amory Lovins: Innovator / Author Paul Crutzen: Researcher / Solver Wallace Broecker: Researcher / Pioneer

Chapter 24: Advocates / Authors

Bill McKibben: Founder / Leader Naomi Klein: Visionary / Leader Elizabeth Kolbert: Educator / Communicator Naomi Oreskes: Historian / Oracle Gus Speth: Insider / Communicator Joe Romm: Communicator / Scientist Paul Hawken: Innovator / Visionary

Chapter 25: Politicians / Advocates

Al Gore: Communicator / Leader Bob Inglis: Republican Leader Sheldon Whitehouse: Congressional Leader

Chapter 26: Artists / Celebrities

James Balog: Explorer / Communicator James Cameron: Producer/ Environmentalist Mark Ruffalo: Actor / Organizer Leonardo DiCaprio: Activist / Actor Neil deGrasse Tyson: Scientist / Communicator Norman Lear: Producer / Promoter

Chapter 27: Businesspeople

Tom Steyer: Strategist / Organizer Jeremy Grantham: Strategist / Visionary Bill Gates: Investor / Entrepreneur Elon Musk: Entrepreneur / Visionary

Chapter 28: Religious / Grassroots Organizers

Michael Bloomberg: Local / Global Van Jones: Strategist / Visionary Sally Bingham: Originator / Leader Tim DeChristopher: Activist / Leader Robert Bullard: Originator / Author

PART FIVE: FINDING SOLUTIONS

Chapter 29: How the Climate-Change War Can Be Won Chapter 30: Solutions for the United States

Insist That Climate Scientists Tell It Like It Is Join/Create Local Grassroots Organizations: Groundswells of Public Support Divest and Transition to a New Economy: The Long-Term Solution Implement a Carbon Fee: The Essential Solution Enforce the Clean Air Act Expedite Renewable Facility Construction Eliminate Federal Subsidies on Fossil Fuels Initiate Federal Subsidies on Renewables Coordinate/Promote Media Events Design and Implement Clean Energy Plans (CEPs) Establish a Department of Energy Resiliency and Sustainability (DOERS)

Chapter 31: Solutions for the World

Schedule and Conduct Productive Climate-Change Conferences Every Year Initiate Large-Scale Restoration of Natural Ecosystems Investigate Feasibility of Alternative Technologies Create a Solar Shield Demonstrate Human Resiliency: Alaska Demonstrate Human Resiliency: Florida

Photo Insert Conclusion Acknowledgments Notes About the Authors Index

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