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Hot Air : Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge by Jeffrey Simpson; Mark Kenneth Jaccard; Nic Rivers is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hot Air : Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge about?

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 o

Who reads Hot Air : Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge?

Author

Jeffrey Simpson; Mark Kenneth Jaccard; Nic Rivers

Publisher

Douglas Gibson Books

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9781551994185

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Technology, Social Science