This Changes Everything (103 page)

for developing world,
76

infrastructure in,
72
,
124

low-consumption activities,
93
–94

Lower Elwah Klallam,
374
–75

Lubicon Lake First Nation,
322

Lukacs, Martin,
383

Lula da Silva, Luiz Inácio,
179

Lummi Nation,
322
–23,
370
,
374
,
389

Lynas, Mark,
279

Lynchburg, Va.,
333

Maccario, Paolo,
65
–66,
68
–69

McClendon, Aubrey,
312
,
356

McCright, Aaron,
46
–47

MacDonald, Christine,
189

McDonald’s,
196
,
208

McIntosh, Alastair,
210

McKibben, Bill,
139
–40,
148
,
353
–54,
404

Madagascar,
220
,
221
–22

Madrid,
157

Maegaard, Preben,
132

Magna,
68

Maher, Bill,
137

Maine,
435

malaria,
109

Malawi, agroecology in,
135

Maldives,
13

Mali,
270

Maliseet First Nation,
371
–72

Malm, Andreas,
80
–81,
172
,
394

Manchester, England,
172
,
300

Manhattan Project,
278

Manne, Robert,
41

Mann, Michael,
55
–56,
107

Manuel, Arthur,
367
–69,
383

Mao Zedong,
178

Marcellus Shale,
312
,
328

marine life:

climate change and,
433
–35

food chain in,
259

impact of Deepwater Horizon spill on,
425
–26,
431
–34,
451

impact of
Exxon Valdez
oil spill on,
337
–39

oceanic acidification and,
259
,
434

Marine Stewardship Council,
209

markets:

carbon,
211

cyclical nature of,
225

expansion of,
171

limits of,
136
–39,
142

see also
free-market ideology

Marom, Yotam,
153

Mars, terraforming of,
288

Marshall, Donald, Jr.,
372

Marshall, George,
213

Marshall
decision,
371
–72,
374

Marshall Plan for the Earth,
5
–7,
40

Martínez, Esperanza,
176
,
304
,
408
–9

Marx, Karl,
177

materialism,
25
,
60

Matsés people,
220
–21

Maules Creek mining project,
300
–301

Maxmin, Chloe,
354

May, Brendan,
249
n

Means, Landon,
395

meat, demand for,
14

media:

climate change denial and,
34

elite control over,
18
,
369
–70

Meeting Environmental Challenges
(Kasser and Crompton),
60

Melbourne, Australia,
446

Melbourne, University of, Energy Institute of,
102

Men’s Health,
429

Merchant, Carolyn,
395

Merchants of Doubt
(film),
42

mercury,
176
,
203

Merkel, Angela,
136
,
141
,
218

Mesoamerica,
439

methane,
15
,
143
–44,
214
,
217
,
222
,
304

in water supply,
328
–29,
332

Métis,
371

Mexico,
19
,
68
,
81
,
82
,
84
,
202

Zapatista uprising in,
182

Mexico, Gulf of,
147
,
330

see also
BP, Deepwater Horizon disaster of

Meyer, Alden,
200
–201

Miami University,
401

Michaels, Patrick,
32
,
33
,
45
,
47
,
48
,
142

Michigan, Enbridge pipeline rupture in,
331
–32,
338

Microsoft,
237

migrants,
154
,
166
–67

climate
refugees,
7

Mi’kmaq,
299
,
303
,
371
–74,
381

Mi’kmaq Warrior Society,
373

military budgets,
114

military, U.S., petroleum consumed by,
113

Mill, John Stuart,
178

Millennium Pipeline,
317

Miller, Colin,
157

Mills, Christina,
313

Minerals Management Service,
333
–34

mining,
91
n,
173
,
176

mountaintop removal,
303
,
309
,
310
,
329
,
353

open-pit,
180
,
296
,
325
,
329
,
348
,
445

see also specific
projects

Minisink, N.Y.,
317

Minnesota,
27

Minnesota, University of, Institute on the Environment at,
58

miscarriages, environmental toxins linked to,
424
–25,
429
,
439

Mississippi,
431

Mississippi River:

drought of 2012 in,
2
–3

flooding of 2011 in,
3

Mississippi River Delta, ecological damage in,
425
–26

Mitchell, Stacy,
209

Mobil,
192

Mohave Generating Station,
398

Mohit, Nastaran,
103
–5

Molina, Patricia,
182

Monbiot, George,
363
–64

Monsanto,
9
,
80
,
135
,
196

monsoons,
268
,
269
,
270
,
273
–74,
287

Montana,
53
n,
318
,
370
,
381

coal mining in,
320
,
342
–43,
346
,
370
,
388
–93,
395
,
397
,
445

Environmental Quality Department of,
397

State Land Board of,
389

Monterey Shale,
347

Montreal, Canada,
313

Montreal, Maine & Atlantic railroad,
333

Montreal Protocol on ozone depletion,
220

moose, disappearance of,
26
–27

Morales, Evo,
180
–81

moral hazard, geoengineering and,
261

moral imperative:

in abolition movement,
462
–63

in climate movement,
336
,
386
–87,
464

divestment movement and,
354
–55

in social movements,
462
,
463
–64

Morano, Marc,
32
,
34
,
45

Morton, Oliver,
259

Mosaddegh, Mohammad,
454

Moses, Marlene,
64
,
449

Mossville, La.,
429
–30

Mother Earth,
see
Earth
Mother/Mother Earth concept

Mount Elgon National Park,
222

Movement Generation,
448

Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (MOSOP),
306

Mueller, Tadzio,
138

Muir, John,
183
–84,
211

Mukherji, Joydeep,
368
–69

multinational corporations:

cheapest labor force and,
81
–82

export-led development and,
82
,
412

Mumbai,
13

Munich, Germany,
97

Murdoch, Rupert,
35

Myhrvold, Nathan,
262
,
264
,
269
,
277
,
280
,
281

Nagasaki, atomic bombing of,
277
–78

Narain, Sunita,
96
,
414

NASA,
14
,
152

earth-from-space photographs by,
286

Goddard Institute for Space Studies at,
22
,
73

NatCen Social Research,
117

Nation,
420

National Academy of Sciences, U.S.,
152
,
282

National Association of Manufacturers,
227

National Audubon Society,
84

National Center for Atmospheric Research,
272

National
Energy Board, Canada,
362

National Environment Appellate Authority, India,
350

National Guard,
103

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), U.S.,
102
,
426
,
432
–33,
434
,
436

national security,
49

National Toxics Campaign,
206

National Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers,
253

National Wildlife Federation,
84
,
185
,
191
,
226
,
390
,
393

Native American cosmologies,
184

natural gas,
67
,
102
,
219

Big Green’s advocacy of,
199
–201,
235
n,
236

as bridge fuel,
128
–30,
211
,
213
–14,
252
,
257
,
287

climate benefits of,
144
n

conventional,
215

flaring of,
305
–6

fracking and,
see
fracking

renewables displaced by,
44
n,
128
–30,
214
–16,
252

for vehicles,
237

Willett’s support for,
235
–36

natural gas industry:

Sierra Club and,
197

strategic miscalculations by,
316
–17

Natural Resource Partners,
349

Natural Resources Defense Council,
84
,
115
,
198
,
205
,
213
,
226
,
325
,
357

Move America Beyond Oil campaign,
231

Nature,
37
,
259

nature:

delayed response of,
175

fertility cycle of,
438
–39,
446
–48

legal rights of,
443
–45

steam power and freedom from,
172
–74

Nature Climate Change,
290

Nature Conservancy,
191
–95,
196
,
206
,
208
n,
210
,
212
n,
226
,
233
n,
355

Business Council of,
196

fracking supported by,
215

oil and gas drilling by,
192
–95,
196
,
206
,
215
,
451

Paraná offset and,
221
,
222

Nauru,
64
,
161
–69,
175
,
187
,
221
n,
311

Australian offshore refugee detention center on,
166
–67

independence of,
162

phosphate of lime in,
162
–63

Navajo,
398
–99

Navarro Llanos, Angélica,
5
–7,
40
,
409

Navigable Waters Protection Act, gutting of,
381
–82

Nebraska,
403

Nelson, Gaylord,
153

neoliberalism,
39
,
43
,
72
–73,
80
,
131
,
132
,
154
,
158
,
466

Netherlands,
99

anti-fracking movement in,
348

divestment movement in,
354

neuropathy,
436
,
438

“New Abolitionism, The” (Hayes),
455

New America Foundation,
263

New Atlantis
(Bacon),
266

New Brunswick:

anti-fracking campaign in,
299
,
303
,
370
,
373
–74,
381

Indigenous rights conflict in,
371
–74

oil train
explosion in,
333

New Deal,
10
,
453
,
454

New Democratic Party (Canadian),
36

New England,
441

New Era Colorado,
98

New Era Windows Cooperative,
123
n

Newfoundland, anti-fracking movement in,
348

New Green Revolution,
135

New Jersey, Superstorm Sandy in,
53

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