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The Global Warming Combat Manual describes the practical measures that readers can take in their daily lives to reduce their carbon footprints, while showing how to link one's personal choices with the big-picture science and the big-scale campaigns to combat global warming on the political, legal, economic, and technological fronts. The emphasis throughout is on practical tips for ways in which people can help combat global warming in their everyday roles as citizens, consumers, homeowners, employees, commuters, tourists, sportsmen, business owners, or farmers. Johansen--assisted by climatologist James Hansen's foreword and appendix--gives general readers the tools they need to calculate and put into action the most rational and ethical green choices.

Dovetailing the personal with the technological and public-policy dimensions, this book lays out the whole battery of existing, emerging, and speculative solutions for global warming. These range from the humdrum and easy (keeping your tires properly inflated), through the necessary and hard (retooling the ways you transport, house, and feed yourself for maximum energy efficiency and minimum carbon footprint). They also encompass the possible (switching over a large fraction of our carbon-based energy sector to alternative sectors based on biofuel, wind, solar, and geothermal power), the visionary (creating a bacterium that will consume CO2), and the improbable (deploying giant reflecting mirrors in space), as well as the weird and dangerous (pumping sulfur aerosols into the stratosphere).

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• Foreword(p. vii)
• Preface(p. xi)
• Introduction(p. xvii)
• 1 Our Cars Are Killing Us: Options in Personal Transport(p. 1)
• 2 Avoiding Our "Suicide Pact" with Aviation(p. 27)
• 3 Greening Shelter and Food(p. 43)
• 4 Biofuels: Where the Money Is(p. 71)
• 5 The Power Forecast Is Windy(p. 91)
• 6 Harvesting the Sun(p. 103)
• 7 Old Wine in New Bottles: Nuclear Power and Changes in Land Use(p. 117)
• 8 The Political Economy of Global Warming(p. 129)
• 9 Technofixes(p. 163)
• Appendix(p. 181)
• Bibliography(p. 191)
• Index(p. 209)

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Packed with recent examples of ways that individuals and corporations are working to reduce their carbon footprints, this book provides a helpful overview of current strategies for addressing global warming. Johansen (communications and Native American studies, Univ. of Nebraska, Omaha) weaves together personal observations with examples of practical solutions for coping with global warming drawn primarily from regional, national, and international newspapers. He discusses simple, existing options for reducing home energy use (such as clotheslines) as well as research on complex, emerging "technofixes" (such as bacteria that will consume carbon dioxide). With the current focus on sustainability on many college campuses, this book may be a good starting point for students investigating practical solutions; however, they will need to look elsewhere for in-depth explanations of how those solutions work. This is not a technical manual--there are limited references to scientific research and few charts and graphs (except in the appendix written by NASA's James Hansen). Johansen expands on solutions presented in his earlier Global Warming in the 21st Century (CH, Feb'07, 44-3339) with good coverage of strategies used in other countries. Summing Up: Recommended. General readers and lower-division undergraduates. N. Sprague University of Idaho

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Bruce E. Johansen is Frederick W. Kayser Research Professor of Communication and Native American Studies at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. He is the author of dozens of books, including Global Warming in the 21st Century (Praeger, 2006), The Global Warming Desk Reference (Greenwood Press, 2001), The Dirty Dozen: Toxic Chemicals and the Earth's Future (Praeger, 2003), Indigenous Peoples and Environmental Issues (Greenwood Press, 2003), and Silenced! Academic Freedom, Scientific Inquiry, and the First Amendment under Siege in America (Praeger, 2007). Johansen regularly contributes articles on environmental issues to such national periodicals as The Nation , The Progressive , the Wall Street Journal , and The Atlantic Monthly .