Live Sustainably Now : : A Low-Carbon Vision of the Good Life / / Karl Coplan.
Any realistic response to climate change will require reducing carbon emissions to a sustainable level. Yet even people who already recognize that the climate is the most urgent issue facing the planet struggle to understand their individual responsibilities. Is it even possible to live with a susta...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2019] ©2020 |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- PREFACE
- PROLOGUE: CLIMATE MARCH AT THE CROSSROADS
- 1. CLIMATARIANISM: OUR PERSONAL MORAL OBLIGATION
- 2. WHY BOTH INDIVIDUAL ACTION AND COLLECTIVE POLICY WILL BE NEEDED TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE
- 3. SOME CLIMATE BASICS: WHAT WE MEAN BY "CARBON FOOTPRINT," HOW WE MEASURE IT, AND WHY IT MATTERS
- 4. SUSTAINABILITY: WHAT IS IT, AND WHO CAN REALLY CLAIM TO BE DOING IT?
- 5. WHAT IS INDIVIDUAL CARBON SUSTAINABILITY, THEN?
- 6. GOING ON A CARBON DIET TO SAVE THE PLANET
- 7. SURPRISING CARBON IMPACT COMPARISONS: IF YOU ARE ONLY GOING TO SWEAT ONE KIND OF STUFF, SWEAT BIG STUFF, NOT SMALL STUFF
- 8. GRAPPLING WITH THE BIG FOUR: ELECTRICITY, HEAT, TRANSPORTATION, AND FOOD
- 9. HAVING FUN ON A CARBON BUDGET
- 10. MEDIUM-TERM GOAL: GETTING TO ZERO
- POSTSCRIPT: INDIVIDUAL CLIMATE ACTION IN THE TRUMP ERA: NOW MORE THAN EVER
- APPENDIX. SAMPLE CARBON FOOTPRINT CALCULATION
- INDEX