This Changes Everything (96 page)

American Gas Association,
213

American Geophysical Union (AGU),
60
,
62
,
449

American Petroleum Institute,
227

Americans for Prosperity (AFP),
53

Amnesty International,
167

anarchists,
178

Anderson,
Germaine,
379

Anderson, Kevin,
13
,
21
,
56
,
86
–89,
91
,
214
,
283

Andhra Pradesh, India,
350

Angotti, Tom,
235
n

Anishinaabe,
443

anti-apartheid movement,
454
–55

anti-coal movements,
10
,
197
,
300
–301,
319
–20,
322
–23,
346
,
348
–49,
350
–52,
365
,
370
,
374
,
376
,
389
,
397
,
398
–99,
408
,
445

anti-fracking movements,
299
–300,
303
–4,
317
–18,
335
,
347
,
348
,
361
,
362
,
365
,
370
,
373
–74,
381
,
403
–4

Antigua
and Barbuda,
415

antinuclear movement,
136
,
138
,
398

antipoverty activists,
157

Antoine, Paula,
375

Apfel, Dan,
401

Appadurai, Anjali,
11

Appalachia,
46
,
309
,
353

aquifers,
147
,
328
,
346
,
347

Arab Spring,
9
,
464

Arab states,
58

Arch Coal,
342
–43,
391
,
397

Arctic,
14
,
15
,
270

Arctic drilling,
141

accidents in,
332
,
333

Greenpeace protests against,
300

high risk in,
324

Indigenous
opposition to,
375
–76

proposed ban on,
353

Arctic Sunrise,
300

Argentina,
123
,
180

Arizona,
398
–99

Army Corps of Engineers,
3

Arnold, Matthew,
215

arrogant ignorance,
267
–68

arts, public funding for,
10

Ashton, John,
150

Asia:

coal imports in,
320
,
352
,
413

effects of Pinatubo Option in,
260
,
270
,
287

free trade zones in,
19

greenhouse gas emissions in,
412

renewable energy and,
349
–50

Asian Pacific Environmental Network (APEN),
155
,
156
,
321

asthma,
94

AT&T,
208

Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN),
326
,
379
–80,
383
–84

Athabasca River,
326

Athanasiou, Tom,
388

Athens,
157

Atlantic,
415

Atlantic salmon,
441

atomic bomb,
277
–78

atrazine,
439

Attwater’s prairie chickens,
191
–95

austerity,
9
,
17
,
61
,
72
,
77
,
110
,
132
,
154
,
158

community-controlled alternative
energy as response to,
132
–33

natural disaster and,
106
–10

personal,
116
–18

Austin, Tex.,
99

Australia,
178
,
242
,
250
,
354

climate change and,
27
,
35
,
36
,
250
,
290

extractive exports from,
143
,
301

Gorgon project in,
145
–46

Great Barrier Reef of,
146
–48,
301

Indigenous land rights in,
182
,
376

Nauru and,
162
,
163
,
166
–67

renewable energy and,
102

Australian Marine Conservation Society,
301

Austria,
99

automobile industry,
113

bailout of,
121
–22,
124
,
125

Ayn Rand Institute,
36

Ayres, Ed,
280

Babones, Salvatore,
243
n

Bach, Amy,
109

Bacon, Francis,
170
,
173
,
174
,
177
,
184
,
266

Baer, Paul,
388

Bakken oil field,
71
,
311
,
325

Balcombe, England,
299
–300,
403
–4

Bangladesh,
82
,
109
,
154

banks,
39

bailouts of,
6
,
110
,
121
–26,
158

nationalization of,
123

Banks, Joseph,
266

Banuri, Tariq,
413
–14

Baptiste, Marilyn,
345
,
365

Bárcena Ibarra, Alicia,
180

Barnes, William,
189

Barnett Shale,
329

Barrow Island,
145

Barton, Joe,
47
,
228

Bast, Joseph,
34
,
41
,
42

bats, disappearance of,
27

Battistoni, Alyssa,
94

Bay Localize,
157

Bazemore, Wally,
105
n

Beaver Lake Cree Nation,
27
,
378
–79

Beckley, W.Va.,
310

Beijing,
17
–18,
23
,
351

Bella Bella, Canada,
337
–42,
344
,
363

Bellingham, Wash.,
349
,
352
,
374
,
403

Bell, Larry,
33
,
47

Berger, John,
120

Berkshire Hathaway,
234

Berlin,
97
,
98

Berry, Wendell,
268
,
335
–36,
438

Betsimisaraka,
220

“Beyond Coal” campaign,
349
,
397

Beyond Vietnam
(King),
449

Beyond Zero Emissions,
102

BG Group,
145

Bhopal Action Resource Group,
206

BHP Billiton,
196

Big Green,
20
,
85
,
87
–88,
124

Blockadia and,
355
–58,
403

carbon trading and,
218
–25

climate change debate and,
198
–201

climate debt seen as politically toxic by,
414

energy investments of,
196
–97

Indigenous land rights and,
387

insider strategies of,
203
–4,
205
–11

natural gas advocated by,
199
–201,
213
–17

patriotism as core message for,
57
–58

as pro-corporate,
196
–97,
207
–11,
213
,
215
–16

renewable energy downplayed by,
199
–200

USCAP created
by,
226
–28

biochar process,
245

biodiversity,
13
,
134

biofuels,
32
,
97
,
231
–32,
238
–41,
251
–52,
253
,
287

biological weapons, banning of,
278

biosphere, as self-organizing, complex, adaptive system,
267

Birol, Fatih,
23

birth defects, environmental toxins and,
428
,
429
–30,
439

bitumen,
see
tar sands

Black Mesa Water Coalition,
398
–99,
402

Black Sea,
349

Blake, William,
157

Blazevic,
Sara,
355

Blockadia,
293
–336,
450
–51

abolition and civil rights movements compared to,
450
,
453
,
455
–57

Big Green and,
355
–58,
403

as constructive movement,
405

early victories of,
348
–53,
359
,
370

as global grassroots movement,
294
–96,
303
–4,
321
–23

in Global South,
412

government repression of,
297
–99,
361
–62,
410
–11

as impetus for uniting of Indigenous peoples and non-Natives,
373
–74,
380
–84,
443
–45

Indigenous peoples in,
139
,
177
;
see also
Indigenous peoples, land rights of

intergenerational character of,
445

love of place in,
337
–66,
370
–71

moral imperative in,
336
,
386
–87,
464

precautionary principle adopted by,
335
–36

as pro-democracy movement,
361
,
380

as pro-water movement,
344
–47

regenerative worldview in,
443
–46

social media and,
303
,
466

women as leaders
in,
303

see also specific groups and protests

Bloomberg Carbon Risk Valuation Tool,
235

Bloomberg, Michael,
49
,
176
,
216
,
230
,
235
–36,
252

Bloomberg Philanthropies,
216

Bloomberg View,
428

BlueGreen Alliance,
126
,
156

Blue Planet Prize,
22

Bolivia,
5
,
7
,
18
,
40
,
180
,
377
,
409
,
443
–44

Bollier, David,
130

Bonogofsky, Alexis,
319
,
342
–43,
390
,
392
–93,
396

Bopha, Typhoon,
465

borders,
hyper-militarized,
154

Bostic, Jason,
337

Boston, Mass.,
13

Boucher, Jim,
386

Boulder, Colo.,
98
–99

Boulton, Matthew,
266

Bows-Larkin, Alice,
87
–89,
412

BP,
111
,
129
,
130
,
215
,
226
,
227
–28,
236
,
282

Big Green funding from,
196
,
198

Greenland project of,
385

lax government regulation of,
330
–31

profit-over-safety culture of,
330
–31,
333
,
376

BP, Deepwater Horizon disaster of,
112
,
144
,
201
,
290
,
316
,
324
,
330
,
332
,
376
,
385
–86,
420

impact on marine life of,
425
–26,
431
–34,
451

lack of preparedness in,
330

miscarriages linked to,
424
–25

pre-explosion risk assessment report on,
430
–31

BP America,
196

BP Capital,
237

Braided Hair, Vanessa,
396
,
397

Brainstorm Green,
229

Brand, Russell,
155

Brand, Stewart,
288

Branson, Richard,
230
–33,
235
–54,
257
,
260
,
263
,
264
,
284
–85,
288
–89

biofuels development pledge of,
231
–32,
238
–41,
251
–52,
253

Carbon War Room of,
232
,
239
,
251

Virgin Earth Challenge of,
232
,
244
–49,
251

see also
Virgin Group

Braun, Clait E.,
192

Brazil,
5
,
13
,
82
,
130
,
145
,
157
,
179
,
202
,
221
–22,
412

Breakthrough Institute,
57

Brecher, Jeremy,
401
,
402

Briner, Brad,
235

Britain,
see
United Kingdom

British Columbia,
302
,
312
,
319
,
419
–20

disappearance of starfish from,
27

Northern Gateway pipeline proposal in,
337
–42,
344
–45,
363
,
365
–66,
367
,
380