Ebook: Hot air: meeting Canada's climate change challenge
Author: Simpson Jeffrey, Jaccard Mark Kenneth, Rivers Nic
- Tags: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure, Climat--Changements--Canada, Climat--Changements--Politique gouvernementale--Canada, Climatic changes--Government policy--Canada, Gaz à effet de serre--Réduction--Canada, Gaz à effet de serre--Réduction--Politique gouvernementale--Canada, Greenhouse gas mitigation--Canada, Greenhouse gas mitigation--Government policy--Canada, SOCIAL SCIENCE--General, Climatic changes--Canada, Greenhouse gas mitigation--Government policy, Climatic changes, Climatic changes--Government po
- Year: 2008
- Publisher: Emblem
- City: Toronto;Canada
- Language: English
- epub
Here's a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation -- and it offers a solution.
It's a brilliant mix. To "Canada's best mind on the environment," Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you add Nic Rivers, a researcher who works with him at Simon Fraser University. Then you add Jeffrey Simpson, the highly respected Globe and Mail columnist, to punch the message home in a clear, hard-hitting way. The result is a unique book.
Most other books on energy and climate change are: (a) terrifying or (b) academic or (c) quirky, advocating a single, neat solution like solar or wind power.
This book is different. It starts with an alarming description of the climate threat to our country. Then it shifts to an alarming description of how Canadians have been betrayed by their politicians ("We're working on it!"), their industrialists ("Things aren't that bad, really, and voluntary guidelines will be...