An inconvenient truth : the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it / Al Gore.

By: Gore, Albert, 1948-Contributor(s): Gore, AlMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Premier's reading challenge Yr 7 - 9Publication details: London : Bloomsbury, c2006Edition: 1st edDescription: 325 p. : ill. (some col.), col. maps, ports. ; 23 cmISBN: 0747589062 (pbk.); 9780747589068 (pbk.)Subject(s): Global warming | Global warming -- Government policy -- United States | Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric | Greenhouse effect, Atmospheric -- Government policy -- United States | Environmental policy -- United States | Environmental protection -- United States | Human ecology | Climatic shifts | Greenhouse effect | Natural resource management | United States | Gore, Al | BiographyDDC classification: 363.738 | 363.73874 LOC classification: QC981.8.G56.G67 2006
Incomplete contents:
Introduction -- A scientific hero : Roger Revelle -- A turning point -- Concrete and countryside -- From pole to shining pole -- Across the wilderness -- Serving for the public good -- My sister -- The politicization of global warming -- So here's what you personally can do to help solve the climate crisis -- Save energy at home -- Get around on less -- Consume less, conserve more -- Be a catalyst for change.
Summary: "Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but it fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger ; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and more through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is that out leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't dimish ; it grows." -- back cover.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
wnor- Book Northam
Northam Adult Nonfiction 		363 .738 GOR (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available al42000226610b

Originally published: [Emmaes, PN] : Rodale, 2006.

Movie tie-in.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- A scientific hero : Roger Revelle -- A turning point -- Concrete and countryside -- From pole to shining pole -- Across the wilderness -- Serving for the public good -- My sister -- The politicization of global warming -- So here's what you personally can do to help solve the climate crisis -- Save energy at home -- Get around on less -- Consume less, conserve more -- Be a catalyst for change.

"Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but it fact it is happening very quickly - and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger ; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and more through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is that out leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed when they are not responded to, their significance doesn't dimish ; it grows." -- back cover.

General.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.