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Inside Technology eBook Series

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  • Nuclear Remains

    On Temporalities, Responsibilities, and Values

    by Basak Sarac-Lesavre ...
    Series series Inside Technology
    An ethnography of U.S. nuclear waste policy, and how to understand contemporary societies’ attempts to establish “good” relations with the future.Contemporary societies are often criticized for their incapacity to account for the long term. Nuclear Remains asks what happens when a society decides to think long term—examining the US efforts to hold present and distant futures together.Focusing on ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

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  • Climate Of Corruption : Politics And Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax

    by Larry Bell ...
    New revelations demonstrate how politics and powerful special-interest agendas have warped the most important scientific debate of the 21st century. Melting glaciers suffering polar bears rising oceansthese are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research Bell deflates these and other climate ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Language of Climate Politics

    Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

    by Genevieve Guenther ...
    A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change. "If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it." - Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard "A revelatory study.. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • The Climate Fix

    What Scientists and Politicians Won't Tell You About Global Warming

    by Roger Pielke Jr. ...
    Why has the world been unable to address global warming? Science policy expert Roger Pielke, Jr., says it's not the fault of those who reject the Kyoto Protocol, but those who support it, and the magical thinking that the agreement represents. In The Climate Fix, Pielke offers a way to repair climate policy, shifting the debate away from meaningless targets and toward a revolution in how the world ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Five Times Faster

    Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

    by Simon Sharpe ...
    We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Reason in a Dark Time

    Why the Struggle Against Climate Change Failed -- and What It Means for Our Future

    by Dale Jamieson ...
    From the 1992 Rio Earth Summit to the 2009 Copenhagen Climate Conference there was a concerted international effort to stop climate change. Yet greenhouse gas emissions increased, atmospheric concentrations grew, and global warming became an observable fact of life. In this book, philosopher Dale Jamieson explains what climate change is, why we have failed to stop it, and why it still matters what ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Dysfunction

    Canada after Keystone XL

    by Dennis McConaghy ...
    #1 Calgary Herald BestsellerAn investigation of the history and demise of the most controversial North American energy infrastructure project.In 2015, President Barack Obama denied approval for TransCanada’s Keystone XL pipeline, which would have carried crude oil from the Canadian oil sands to the U.S. Gulf Coast, providing great economic benefit to Canada. Over seven years of regulatory process, ... Read more

    $9.89 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Carbon Crunch

    How We're Getting Climate Change Wrong—and How to Fix It

    by Dieter Helm ...
    An economist's take on "why the world's efforts to curb the carbon dioxide emissions behind global warming have gone so wrong, and how it can do better" ( Financial Times).Despite commitments to renewable energy and two decades of international negotiations, global emissions continue to rise. Coal, the most damaging of all fossil fuels, has actually risen from 25% to almost 30% of world energy use ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Disequilibrium

    A World Out Of Kilter

    by Thierry Malleret ...
    "Disequilibrium" is an essay at the intersection of economics, geopolitics, and political and environmental science: it connects the dots between various academic disciplines and does a great job at simplifying the increasing complexity of today's world. It contends that in the foreseeable future, our world will be lurching from one global crisis to the next as it becomes much more susceptible to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Renewables

    The Politics of a Global Energy Transition

    by Michael Aklin, Johannes Urpelainen ...
    A comprehensive political analysis of the rapid growth in renewable wind and solar power, mapping an energy transition through theory, case studies, and policy.Wind and solar are the most dynamic components of the global power sector. How did this happen? After the 1973 oil crisis, the limitations of an energy system based on fossil fuels created an urgent need to experiment with alternatives, and ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Global Carbon Pricing

    The Path to Climate Cooperation

    Edited by Peter Cramton, David JC MacKay, Axel Ockenfels, Steven Stoft ...
    Why the traditional “pledge and review” climate agreements have failed, and how carbon pricing, based on trust and reciprocity, could succeed.After twenty-five years of failure, climate negotiations continue to use a “pledge and review” approach: countries pledge (almost anything), subject to (unenforced) review. This approach ignores everything we know about human cooperation. In this book, ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Carbon Change

    Canada on the Brink of Decarbonization

    by Dennis McConaghy ...
    An investigation into the scale and costs of transitioning our energy systems to achieve net-zero emissions.Canada and the rest of the developed world have committed to decarbonizing basic energy systems, but do this country’s citizens and governments truly understand the sacrifices ahead and are we willing to accept those sacrifices in the name of reducing the impact of climate change? Will the ... Read more

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