By Eric Pooley
In The weather War, Eric Pooley--deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek--does for worldwide warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence Wright did for terrorists. during this epic story of an American civil struggle, Pooley takes us backstage and into the hearts and minds of crucial avid gamers within the fight to cap international warming pollution--a struggle during which trillions of greenbacks and the destiny of the planet are at stake.
Why has it been so demanding for the United States to return to grips with weather switch? Why accomplish that many folks think it isn't particularly taking place? As President Obama's technology consultant John Holdren has stated, "We're riding in a automobile with undesirable brakes in a fog and heading for a cliff. we all know needless to say that cliff is available. We simply don't be aware of precisely the place it truly is. Prudence might recommend that we must always begin placing at the brakes." yet robust pursuits are threatened by means of the carbon cap that will velocity the transition to a fresh strength economic system, and their brokers have labored effectively to disclaim the matter and hold up the ideas.
To write this booklet, Pooley, the previous handling editor of Fortune and leader political correspondent for Time, spent 3 years embedded with a unprecedented forged of characters: from the flowery head of 1 of the nation's biggest coal-burning power businesses to the pushed environmental chief who made universal reason with him, from top scientists caution of approaching disaster to specialist skeptics disputing virtually each element of weather technology, from radical activists chaining themselves to bulldozers to robust lobbyists, media specialists, and advisors in Obama's West Wing--and, to best it off, exceptional entry to former vp Al Gore and his workforce of weather activists.
Pooley captures the quiet decision or even heroism of weather campaigners who've committed their lives to an uphill conflict that's nonetheless raging at the present time. He asks even if we have now what it takes to maintain our planet's habitability, and exhibits how America's weather battle sends surprise waves from Bali to Copenhagen. No different reporter enjoys such entry to this solid of characters. No different ebook covers this terrain. From the trenches of a North Carolina energy plant to the battlefields of Capitol Hill, Madison street, and Wall road, The weather War is the fundamental learn for somebody who desires to comprehend the avid gamers and politics at the back of an important factor we are facing at the present time.
PRAISE FOR THE weather struggle
"Eric Pooley has written a riveting story, the first actual account of the epic American crusade to get occupied with worldwide warming. This tale has heroes, like my good friend Al Gore, and it has a few villains. What it doesn't have is an finishing; that half remains to be as much as us. that's why somebody who concerns concerning the way forward for our nation--or wonders why it's been so tough for us to accommodate weather change--should learn this book."
--President invoice Clinton
"The weather War bargains a behind-the-scenes examine the main consequential political conflict of our time. It's a compelling--and frequently disturbing--read."
--Elizabeth Kolbert, writer of Field Notes from a Catastrophe
"In the ever-expanding literature on weather switch, this is often the 1st booklet to place a human face at the challenge through entering into the heads of the folks who're attempting to resolve it, deftly revealing the messy entanglement of idealism and realism that finally ends up in progress."
--Michael Oppenheimer, Albert G. Milbank Professor of Geosciences and overseas Affairs, Princeton college
"If the technological know-how is so transparent and compelling--the means we use strength is dangerously overheating the planet--the how come it's so agonizingly tough for the US to stand proof and paved the way towards an international answer? ultimately, i've got a good suggestion why, due to Eric Pooley's lucid chronicle of the long-running struggles--political, own and specially, economic--to outline the area that our youngsters and grandchildren will inhabit."
--Kurt Andersen, writer of Heyday and Reset and Host of public radio's "Studio 360"
"The first nice crusade ebook concerning the political conflict over weather switch. Eric Pooley brings us inside of this epic fight during which technological know-how, company, and politics all come jointly. The characters are interesting and the stakes are enormous."
--Walter Isaacson, President and CEO, The Aspen Institute and writer of Einstein: His lifestyles and Universe
"The legislative method printed: Eric Pooley paints the personalities, the concepts, and the intrigue of weather politics in shiny aspect. A web page turner and a must-read for a person who cares concerning the weather, and approximately America's persevered skill to take on difficulties and lead."
--Katie McGinty, Former Chair, White condo Council on Environmental caliber
"Eric Pooley's The weather War is a painstakingly researched account of ways weather swap turned one of many defining political problems with a iteration. As progressives in the US and all over the world struggle to go off weather catastrophe, Pooley's publication provides a much-needed background of the crusade for weather safety, and reminds us, once more, why pressing motion is so necessary."
--John Podesta, President and CEO heart for American growth
"The weather War is a brilliant booklet not only since it chronicles the bloody political struggle to avoid wasting the planet, yet simply because it's the simplest argument I've ever learn for a way a unmarried coverage idea--cap and trade--can swap the world."
--Jeff Goodell, writer of ways to chill the Planet
"Journalism with rules: epic in scale, masterful in narrative and element, with well-paced winks on the tragic absurdity of it all."
--Eric Roston, writer of The Carbon Age
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