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Here’s a clear, believable book for Canadians concerned about our situation — and it offers a solution.
It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you add Nic Rivers, a researcher who works with him at Simon Fraser University. Then you add Jeffrey Simpson, the highly respected Globe and Mail columnist, to punch the message home in a clear, hard-hitting way. The result is a unique book.
Most other books on energy and climate change are: (a) terrifying or (b) academic or (c) quirky, advocating a single, neat solution like solar or wind power.
This book is different. It starts with an alarming description of the climate threat to our country. Then it shifts to an alarming description of how Canadians have been betrayed by their politicians (“We’re working on it!”), their industrialists (“Things aren’t that bad, really, and voluntary guidelines will be good enough.”), and even their environmentalists (“Energy efficiency can be profitable, and people can change their lifestyles!”) All of this, of course, reinforces the myths that forceful policies are not needed.
Hot Air then lays out in convincing and easily understandable terms the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades. It even shows how these policies can be designed to have minimal negative effects.
With evidence from other countries that are successfully addressing climate change, Hot Air shows why these are the only policies that will work — and why this is a matter of life and death for all of us.
From the Hardcover edition.
It’s a brilliant mix. To “Canada’s best mind on the environment,” Mark Jaccard, who won the 2006 Donner Prize for an academic book in this area, you add Nic Rivers, a researcher who works with him at Simon Fraser University. Then you add Jeffrey Simpson, the highly respected Globe and Mail columnist, to punch the message home in a clear, hard-hitting way. The result is a unique book.
Most other books on energy and climate change are: (a) terrifying or (b) academic or (c) quirky, advocating a single, neat solution like solar or wind power.
This book is different. It starts with an alarming description of the climate threat to our country. Then it shifts to an alarming description of how Canadians have been betrayed by their politicians (“We’re working on it!”), their industrialists (“Things aren’t that bad, really, and voluntary guidelines will be good enough.”), and even their environmentalists (“Energy efficiency can be profitable, and people can change their lifestyles!”) All of this, of course, reinforces the myths that forceful policies are not needed.
Hot Air then lays out in convincing and easily understandable terms the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades. It even shows how these policies can be designed to have minimal negative effects.
With evidence from other countries that are successfully addressing climate change, Hot Air shows why these are the only policies that will work — and why this is a matter of life and death for all of us.
From the Hardcover edition.
About the Author
Jeffrey Simpson has been the Globe and Mail’s national columnist since 1984 and is a nationally recognized figure and an Officer of the Order of Canada. A former Governor General’s Award—winner, he is the author most recently of The Friendly Dictatorship.
Mark Jaccard is a professor at SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management and an internationally respected authority on climate change. His academic publications have won him the Best Policy Book Award and the Donner Prize. As the leading Canadian authority on climate change, he is the sixth most frequently interviewed professor in the country, and Roy MacGregor has called him “Canada’s best mind on the environment.”
Nic Rivers is a researcher and writer at SFU who assisted with research, and with the fifteen maps and graphs that help explain the book’s message.
From the Hardcover edition.
Mark Jaccard is a professor at SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management and an internationally respected authority on climate change. His academic publications have won him the Best Policy Book Award and the Donner Prize. As the leading Canadian authority on climate change, he is the sixth most frequently interviewed professor in the country, and Roy MacGregor has called him “Canada’s best mind on the environment.”
Nic Rivers is a researcher and writer at SFU who assisted with research, and with the fifteen maps and graphs that help explain the book’s message.
From the Hardcover edition.
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A must read for all Canadian citizens AND politicians!,
By SnakelaD "J'AI TROP FAIM DE VRAI PEURA!!!" (Mtl, Qc, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Hot Air: Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge (Paperback)
A must read for all Canadian citizens AND politicians!Very insightful book that goes in details about Canada's past + current ongoing failures to REALLY adhere to climate change policy-making necessary to yield changes in our GHG emissions - that is, changes that will need to occur across the board, from industry to individuals and from cars to building codes. The book offers an in-depth analysis of past politics on the subject (from the 80s with Brian Mulroney to the time of the Liberals with Chretien and Martin, all the way to today with Stephen Harper and the Conservatives), as well as brings CONCRETE SOLUTIONS to the issue, models presented that show that it is possible to yield change in having everyone sharing the associated costs of the burden at hand and still benefit from it all in an almost "business as usual" manner from an economics POV (different levels of governments, industries, citizens, etc.), and without causing "an economic collapse" as some would put it. The bottom line is: to yield (behavioral) change + curb down our emissions through various policies / mechanisms + technologies over time, and as all adjust + adapt all will benefit as well as our Mother-Earth - it's a win-win situation, the authors have convinced me, I am converted and I believe! The solutions make sense, are reasonable + rational, and it all comes down to this: the atmosphere is not a dump, and so long as polluting the air (and other "free" natural resources for that matter) remains free and without consequences, behaviors won't change and we'll only keep fooling ourselves in believing that we're doing better otherwise. If you run a red light, there are consequences, so why should there not be consequences for polluting the air and water from which our lives depend upon so dearly?! If we care about our environment as we say we do as Canadians, then it's time to act like it: change needs to occur and to come from everyone, on all fronts, to make this societal project happen: our children's future depends on it. I sincerely hope as many citizens as possible will buy the book, read it, spread the word; I also hope politicians can draw insightful perspectives from the information, ideas and models presented - and start acting now before it's too late, as the process of decreasing GHGs is a long-term one, decades in the making, and we're already behind having failed Kyoto ... THE TIME FOR TRUE POLITICAL LEADERSHIP ON THE MATTER IS NOW OR NEVER. Well done to the authors. JF Petitclerc aka SnakelaD from Montreal, QC
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