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10.
A text of Kennan’s telegram setting out the policy of containment can be read at
www.learner.org/channel/workshops/primarysources/coldwar/docs/
tele.html
11.
Isaiah Berlin,
Political Ideas in the Romantic Age
, Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2006, pp. 54–5.
12.
For authoritative analyses of the scale and speed of climate shift, see James Lovelock,
The Revenge of Gaia
, London, Allen Lane, 2006; Fred Pearce,
The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change
, London, Transworld Publishers, 2006; and Jim Hansen, ‘The threat to the planet’,
New York Review of Books
, vol. 53, no. 12, 13 July 2006. A seminal discussion of global oil peaking can be found in C. J. Campbell,
The Coming Oil Crisis
, Brentwood, Essex, Multi-Science Publishing Company, 1997. An authoritative analysis of the peaking of oil reserves in Saudi Arabia can be found in Matthew R. Simmons,
Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the Global Economy
, London, Wiley, 2005.
13.
The report, authored by Peter Schwartz and Doug Randall, can be downloaded at
http://www.environmentaldefense.org/3566–AbruptClimateChange.pdf
14.
For an argument in favour of zero-emission fossil fuels as a sustainable alternative, see Mark Jaccard,
Sustainable Fossil Fuels: The Unusual Suspect in the Search for Clean and Enduring Energy
, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2005.
15.
See Lovelock,
The Revenge of Gaia, p.
154.
16.
Jared Diamond,
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Survive
, London, Allen Lane, 2005, p.521.
17.
Frank Kermode,
The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction
, New York and Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1967, p.123.
18.
Marcel Proust,
The Way by Swann’s
, London, Allen Lane, 2002, p. 47.
19.
Adam Phillips,
Side Effects
, London, Hamish Hamilton, 2006, p. 99.
20.
I develop the idea of
modus vivendi
more fully in
Two Faces of Liberalism
, Cambridge, Polity Press, 2000, Chapter 4.
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