This Changes Everything (97 page)

scallop collapse in,
434

Supreme Court of,
368
–69

British Social Attitudes survey,
117

Bronx Zoo,
183

Brookings Institution,
290

Brower, Kenneth,
289

Browne, Sir John,
111
,
130

Brownstein, Mark,
356

Brown University,
428

Brulle, Robert,
44
,
199

Brundtland, Gro Harlem,
22

Brune, Michael,
357

Buenos Aires,
123

Buffett, Warren,
233
–34,
252

buildings:

greenhouse gas emissions from,
412
–13

retrofitting of,
108
,
122
,
124

Build Our Energy Barn,
403

Bulgaria,
348

Bunzl, Martin,
269
–70

Burkina Faso,
270

Burlington Northern Santa Fe railroad,
234

Burnt Church, Canada,
372
–73

Bury the Chains
(Hochschild),
456

Büscher, Bram,
223
–24

Bush, George H. W.,
208

Bush,
George W.,
211
–12,
328

cadmium,
176

Caldeira, Ken,
263
–64,
271

Calgary, Canada,
2
,
245
–49

California,
13
,
52
,
347

California, University of:

at Davis, Institute of Transportation Studies at,
101

at Irvine,
14

Cameron, David,
7
,
106
–7,
110
,
149
,
251

Cameron, James,
449

Canada,
11
,
17
,
19
,
71
,
83
,
143

divestment movement in,
354

environmental legislation in,
202

extractive industry
subsidies in,
127

fossil fuels in,
69
,
79
,
178

fracking in,
299
,
303
–4,
313

government attacks on Indigenous land rights in,
381
–82

government repression of environmental protest in,
299
,
303

politics of climate change in,
36
,
46

pro-mining policies of,
382

S&P rating of,
368

tar sands in,
see
Alberta tar sands

weakening of environmental protections in,
381
–82

Canadian Association of
Petroleum Producers,
149

Canadian Auto Workers Union,
122

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives,
70
,
129
,
400

Canadian Natural Resources,
281

Canadian Security Intelligence Service,
362

cancer, tar sands linked to,
327

cap-and-trade system,
208
,
218
,
226
–29,
287

cap and dividend,
118

capitalism,
22
,
25
,
38
–39,
47
,
61
,
88
,
89
,
125
,
158
,
159
,
176
,
179
,
228
n,
233
,
450

and attempts to mitigate
climate change,
230
–55

climate change as argument against,
157

climate change regulation seen as threat to,
31
,
33

conservation and,
185
–86

deregulated,
18
,
20
,
75
,
154

disaster,
51
,
109
,
154
,
233

fossil fuels and,
175
,
176

Gaia,
231

industrial,
173
–74,
177

nature vs.,
177
,
186

rebranding of,
252

see also
free-market ideology

Capital in the Twenty-First Century
(Piketty),
154
–55

carbon:

atmospheric,
109

high-risk,
130

new sources of,
141

carbon bubble,
358

carbon budget, collective,
153

carbon cowboys,
220
–21

carbon credits,
305

carbon dioxide,
143

recycling into products,
246
–47

carbon emissions,
14
,
23
,
79

caps on,
118
,
141
,
208
,
218
,
226
–29,
287

climate debt and,
409

cutting of,
see
carbon reduction

of developing world,
409
–10

historical evidence for,
415
,
452

Industrial Revolution and increase in,
175
–76,
409

rising levels of,
4
,
11
,
13
,
14
–15,
26

of U.S.,
113
,
409

wartime activities and,
17

wealth and,
113
–14

see also
greenhouse gas emissions

Carbon Engineering,
281

carbon footprint,
77
,
144
,
178
,
235
,
247
,
248
,
288

carbon markets,
211
,
218
–25,
233

failure of,
224
–25,
252

carbon offsets,
8
,
39
,
212
,
251
,
287

ineffectiveness of,
223
–24,
387

carbon sequestration,
134
,
218
,
221
–23,
232
,
245
,
247
–48,
284
,
439

carbon-sucking machines,
236
,
244
,
245
,
254
,
257
,
260
,
263
,
279
,
288

carbon taxes,
112
,
114
,
125
,
157
,
218
,
250
,
400
,
461

Carbon Tracker Initiative,
148

carbon trading,
39
,
87
,
124
,
125
,
199
–201,
208
,
218
,
226
–29,
287
,
418

Carbon War Room,
199
,
264

Cargill,
89

Caribbean,
240
,
414
–15

caribou,
435

Carleton College,
401

Carmichael, Ruth,
433
–34

cars,
16
,
90
–91,
116
,
210

Carson, Rachel,
185
,
201
,
207
,
286
,
337

Carter, Bob,
33
,
47

Carter, Jimmy,
116
–17,
205

Carter, Nick,
349

Case for Climate Engineering, A
(Keith),
275

Casselton, N.Dak.,
312
,
333

Castro, Rodrigo,
161

Caterpillar,
227

Cato Institute,
32
,
33
,
36
,
39
,
45
,
142

CBC,
362

CBS This Morning,
288

cell phones,
91
n

Cenovus,
349

Center for
American Progress,
111

Center for Biological Diversity,
206

Center for Strategic and International Studies,
53

Center for Sustainable Shale Development (CSSD),
216
,
356
n

Central America, sweatshops in,
81

Centre for Science and Environment,
96
,
414

Centrica,
149

centrism,
22
,
59
,
83

Cha, J. Mijin,
216

Chad,
270

Chamber of Commerce, U.S.,
31
,
48

chaos theory,
267

Chappell, Ronnie,
228

charitable foundations,
205
–6,
210
n

extractive industries and,
197
–98

Charter of Rights and Freedoms, Canadian,
371

Chávez, Hugo,
179
,
182

Chen Jiping,
351

Chesapeake Energy,
312
,
356
–57

Chevron,
111
,
129
,
221
,
291

Ecuador’s lawsuit against,
309
,
378

Gorgon project of,
145
–46

green groups funded by,
196
,
217

Niger Delta operations of,
308

Pungesti shale gas project of,
298
–99,
347
,
404

Richmond refinery of,
321
,
402

Chicago, University of,
81

Chilcotin River,
345

children, impact of environmental toxins on,
427
–29

Childs, Mike,
250

Chile,
9
,
454
,
464

Chilko River,
345

China,
5
,
24
,
55
,
58
,
79
,
82
,
88
n,
451

air pollution in,
17
–18,
23
,
350
,
351

anti-coal movement in,
300
,
350
–52

carbon emissions from,
409
–10,
411
,
412

Central Committee, Communist Party,
133

coal exports
to,
234

coal use in,
81
–82,
83

coolant factories in,
219
–20

Copenhagen nonbinding agreement signed by,
12

as creditor,
180

economic growth in,
351
–52

as emerging market,
20

environmental contamination in,
23
,
83
,
154

export-led development in,
81

fast-growing economy of,
40
,
153

human rights issues in,
351
–52

peasant uprisings in,
350
–51

renewable energy programs in,
352

solar energy
and,
66
,
68
,
69
–70,
72

wealth in,
114

WTO challenges brought against,
64
–65,
68
,
70

WTO challenges brought by,
65

WTO membership of,
76

Chisholm, Sallie,
267

Chrétien, Jean,
83

Chrysler,
67
,
68

Chukchi Sea,
375
–76

CIA,
53

civil disobedience,
139

civil rights movement,
204
–5,
450
,
453

Clarkson, Thomas,
463

Clatskanie, Oreg.,
349

clear-cutting,
296
,
304
,
310

Climate Action Network,
149

climate change,
73
,
110
,
165
,
176
,
177
,
230
,
249

acceptable risk and,
335

astronaut’s-eye view of,
284
–90,
296

centrist organizations and,
198
–201

community and,
364
–65

computer models of,
270
–71

corporate deregulation and,
20

defining of,
210

democracy and,
363
–64

developing world on,
75

disasters and,
2
–3,
17
,
102
–3,
154
,
406
,
465

fracking and,
199

as transformative force,
7
,
8
,
152
–60

Indigenous rights and,
380
–84,
385

individual vs. corporate conservation in,
116
–18

marine infertility and,
433
–35

mitigation of,
134

negotiations on,
11

past and future generations in,
158
–59

as planetary emergency,
6
,
7
,
15
,
17
,
18
,
449
–50,
459
–60

planetary exodus as solution to,
288
–89

and power relation between humans and earth,
175

as result of cumulative emissions,
21
,
40
,
56
,
175
,
409
–10,
416

roots of,
159
–60

sacrifice zones and,
310
–11,
315

“safe” limit of,
12
–13

tipping points for,
14
,
412

2 degrees Celsius boundary in,
87
–88,
89
,
150
,
354
,
456

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