Apologies for cross-posting
...And little bit of shameless marketing!
The first Crisis Forum book is now out ..details below.
But the important information: if any of you would like a copy of SURVIVING
CLIMATE CHANGE you can buy it direct from Pluto Press,
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book online you can cite the special code - PLUSCC - and get it for the
special discount price of £13.00 (as opposed to its normal retail price of
£15.99!)
cheers
mark
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SURVIVING CLIMATE CHANGE. The struggle to avert global catastrophe. Edited
by David Cromwell and Mark Levene, Pluto Press, Oct. 2007
The PLUTO Press flyer for 'Surviving Climate Change' reads
World's leading climate campaigners offer practical solutions;
"An insightful and inspiring collection from some of the foremost
thinkers on climate change. Not to be missed."
Mark Lynas, author of High Tide (Flamingo/HarperCollins, 2004).
"A visionary and hopeful book -- an essential survival guide in
turbulent times." Caroline Lucas, Green Party MEP for South East England
Climate change is a pressing reality. From hurricane Katrina to melting
polar ice, and from mass extinctions to increased threats to food and
water security, the link between corporate globalisation and planetary
blowback is becoming all too evident.
Governments and business keep reassuring the public they are going to
fix the problem. This book brings together some leading activists who
disagree. They expose the inertia, denial, deception -- even threats to
our civil liberties -- which comprise mainstream responses from civil
and military policy makers, and from opinion formers in the media,
corporations and academia.
An epochal change is called for in the way we all engage with the
climate crisis. Key to that change is Aubrey Meyer's proposed
'Contraction and Convergence' framework for limiting global carbon
emissions. This book, which also includes contributions by Mayer Hillman
and George Marshall, is a powerful and vital guide to how mass
mobilisation can avert the looming catastrophe.
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David Cromwell is the author of Private Planet (2001) and is co-author,
with David Edwards, of Guardians of Power (2006). He is a researcher at
the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, and the co-founder of the
Crisis Forum with Mark Levene.
Mark Levene is an environmental activist and a historian at the
University of Southampton. He is the author of Genocide in the Age of
the Nation-State (2005). He is also founder of Rescue!History, a network
seeking to understand the historical origins of climate change.
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Preface
Introduction: Survival Means Renewal, Mark Levene and David Cromwell -
Both University of Southampton
Part I The Big Picture
1. The Case for Contraction and Convergence, Aubrey Meyer
Part II The State and its Apparatus
2. Thinking the Worst: The Pentagon Report, Dave Webb - Leeds
Metropolitan University
3. Preparing for Mass Refugee Flows: The Corporate Military Sector,
Steve Wright - Leeds Metropolitan University
4. Britain, Political Process and the Consequences for Government Action
on Climate Change, James Humphreys
Part III Critical Players
5. First they Blocked, Now do they Bluff? Corporations respond to
Climate Change, Melanie Jarman
6. Mostly Missing the Point: Business Responses to Climate Change, David
Ballard - University of Bath
7. The Mass Media, Climate Change and how things might be, John Theobald
and Marianne McKiggan
8. Having the Information but what do you then do with it? The
Scientific and Academic Communities, Jonathan Ward - University of
Bristol
9. Asleep on their Watch: Where were the NGOs?, George Marshall
Part IV The Challenge Ahead
10. Clearing the Pathways to Transformation, Susan Ballard and David
Ballard
11. Averting Climate Change: By Force, Persuasion or Enlightened
Self-Interest ? Jim Scott
Afterword: Where Do We Go From Here? Mayer Hillman - Policy Studies
Institute, London
Appendix 1: A Layperson's Glossary of the Global Politics of Climate
Change, Tim Helweg-Larsen (Centre for Alternative Technology,
Machynelleth, Wales) and Jo Abbess
Appendix 2: Climate Change campaigns and other relevant links
Notes on Contributors
Index
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