The Climate Cure: Solving the Climate Emergency in the Era of COVID-19, Tim Flannery

-About this book

Emergencies test governments, organisations and individuals. Although Australia’s prompt, science-led response to COVID-19 has not been perfect, it has saved tens of thousands of lives. But for decades, governments have ignored, ridiculed or understated the advice of scientists on the climate emergency.

Now, in the wake of the megafires of 2020, a time of reckoning has arrived. In The Climate Cure renowned climate scientist Tim Flannery takes aim at those responsible for the campaign of obfuscation and denial that has already cost so many Australian lives and held back action on climate change.

Flannery demands a new approach, based on the nation’s response to COVID-19, that will lead to effective government policies. The Climate Cure is an action plan for our future. We face a fork in the road, and must decide now between catastrophe and survival.

Tim Flannery is a scientist, an explorer, a conservationist and a leading writer on climate change. He has held various academic positions including visiting Professor in Evolutionary and Organismic Biology at Harvard University, Director of the South Australian Museum, Principal Research Scientist at the Australian Museum, Professorial Fellow at the Melbourne Sustainable Society Institute, University of Melbourne, and Panasonic Professor of Environmental Sustainability, Macquarie University. His books include the award-winning international bestseller The Weather Makers, Here on Earth and Atmosphere of Hope. Flannery was the 2007 Australian of the Year. He is currently chief councillor of the Climate Council.

-Contents

Introduction
PART 1 THE GREAT AUSTRALIAN TRAGEDY

Chapter 1 A History of Folly
Chapter 2 How Australian Government Policy Is Making Things Worse
Chapter 3 The Balance of Probabilities: It’s Worse than You Think
Chapter 4 Megafire
Chapter 5 The Decade of Consequences
Chapter 6 Who Does What When Governments Fail?
PART 2 THE THREE-PART CURE

Chapter 7 Stemming the Spread
Chapter 8 An Australian Coal Compromise
Chapter 9 Clean Industrial Energy
Chapter 10 Cutting off Fossil Fuel’s Support Network
Chapter 11 Hydrogen
Chapter 12 Electric Vehicles
Chapter 13 Aviation and Shipping
Chapter 14 Leadership and Cooperation in a Global Emergency
Chapter 15 Adaptation
Chapter 16 Drawdown: A Vaccine for the Fossil Fuel Pandemic
Actions Summary

-caractéristiques

Date de parution : 3 November  2020

 ISBN : 9781922330352

 Editeur : Text Publishing

 Language : English

 Pages : 224

 poids : 135g