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Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
nuclear weapons
nutrition
Obama, Barack
Obamacare
Objectivist
oceans. See also sea ice; sea level rise;
acidification of
carbon absorbed by
dead zones in
oxygen production in
plastic waste in
warming of
Octopus (yacht)
Off-Grid Electric
Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy
oil
oil and gas industry
climate change research and
ideology and
leverage and
methane leaks and
Paris accords and
Oklahoma
Olduvai Gorge
Oman
Omohundro, Stephen M.
On Liberty (Mill)
Opal Reef
Opower software
Oppenheimer, J. Robert
Oracle
Ordovician extinction
Orwell, George
Ostrom, Elinor
Otpor!
Our Final Invention (Barrat)
oxygen
ozone hole
Page, Larry
Pakistan
paleoclimatologists
Paradise, California, fires
Paris accords
Parker, Captain
Parkland school shootings
parrotfish
“Path to Prosperity” budget
PayPal
Peabody coal
Pearl Harbor attacks
Pence, Gregory
Pence, Mike
Pérez, Jorge
Perkins, Tom
permafrost
Permian extinction
Perry, Rick
Persian Gulf
pesticides
Petrarch
PetroChina
Philip, Joe
Philip Morris USA
Philippines
phytoplankton
Pickett, Kate
Pilkey, Orrin
Pinker, Steven
Plan to Eliminate Energy Poverty and Inequality
plastic waste
Pliocene epoch
Poindexter, Nicole
Poler, Ariel
Polo, Marco
polygenic score
Pompeo, Mike
Poor People’s Campaign
Pope, Art
Populists
Po River Valley
Portland, Oregon
poverty
predatory delay
preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)
privacy
Progressive Era
Prospect of Immortality, The (Ettinger)
Prozac
Pruitt, Scott
public choice theory
public sector
public transit
Puerto Rico
Putin, Vladimir
Puzder, Andrew
Qaterlait Glacier
radiation
rainfall
Rand, Ayn
rapamycin
Raymond, Lee
Reagan, Ronald
Reddit
Red Guard
Regalado, Antonio
Remaking Eden (Silver)
renewable energy. See also solar power; wind power
repair
Republican Party
Reynolds, H.M., Company
Rhodes
rice
Rich, Nathaniel
Ricks, Thomas
Rio environmental summit (1992)
Rio Rancho semiconductor plant
risk
Rive, Lyndon
rivers
Roberts, Dave
Robinson, Kim Stanley
robots
Roddenberry, Gene
Rohling, Eelco
Roman Empire
Rome
Romney, Mitt
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Routledge, Clay
Rove, Karl
Russia. See also Bolshevik Revolution; Soviet Union
Ryan, Paul
Sahara
SAM (semi-automated mason)
Sandberg, Anders
Sanders, Bernie
San Francisco
sanitation
Savulescu, Julian
sawflies
scale
Scandinavia
Schell, Jonathan
Schreiber, Kim
Scotland
screens
sea ice
sea level rise
sea turtles
selfishness
Sense and Sensibility (Austen)
Sex and the Single Zillionaire (Perkins)
Shanahan, Nicole
Shanghai
sharks
Shell Oil
Shetland Islands
Short, Marc
Siberia
Siberian Traps
Sierra Nevada
Silent Spring (Carson)
Silicon Valley
Silver, Lee
Sinovation Ventures
60 Minutes (TV show)
slowdown
smallpox
smartphones
Smart Replay program
Smith, Adam
Snowden, Edward
socialism
social isolation
social media
social safety net
Social Security
Solar City
solar power
lobbying vs.
microgrids and
rooftop
solidarity. See also community
Solomon, Tom
Sorcerer’s Apprentice, The (film)
Southwestern Publishing
Soviet Union. See also Russia
soy
space colonization
SpaceX
Spanish flu
SpinVox
Spotify
Stalin, Joseph
Standing Rock protests
Staples, Sam
Starr, Ken
Startling Stories
Star Trek (TV show)
state governments
Steffen, Alex
stem cells
Sternberg, Sam
St. Louis World’s Fair
Stock, Gregory
Stonehenge
stress hormones
submarine landslides
suicide
SunEdison
Sun Microsystems
Sweden
swordfish
Synthego
Syria
Tanzania
tar sands
taxes
cuts in
opposition to
Tea Party
tech industry
technology
of maturity and repair
replacement
Teller, Edward
Tesla
Texaco
Texas
Texas Hold ‘Em
thalassemia
Thatcher, Margaret
Theory of Moral Sentiments, The (Smith)
Thiel, Peter
Thomas, Clarence
Thoreau, Henry
350.org
350 parts per million
Thurow, Lester
Tillerson, Rex
Tiumalu, Koreti
tobacco
Tolstoy, Leo
Tomasky, Michael
totalitarianism
TransCanada Corporation
transhumanism
transportation
Trappist solar system
Triassic-Jurassic extinction
Trudeau, Justin
Trump, Donald
tsunamis
Tunica, Mississippi
Tunuliarfik Fjord
Turkey
Turner, Frederick Jackson
Twenge, Jean
21st Century Fox
&n
bsp; 23andMe
Twitter
U-Barrier
Uber
Unabomber
Unconquerable World, The (Schell)
Underwood, Barbara
United Nations
General Assembly
special rapporteur on extreme poverty
Sustainable Development Goals
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Congress
U.S. Geological Survey
U.S. Pacific Command
U.S. Senate
U.S. Supreme Court
Unity Biotechnology
Urban, Tim
USA Today
Utah
utilities
Vanity Fair
vapor pressure deficit
Vassar, Michael
Venezuela
Venice
Verity, William
Vermont
Vietnam
Vinci, Leonardo da
Virgin Galactic
Virtue of Selfishness, The (Rand)
Vodafone
volcanoes
voting rights
Walker, Scott
Wall Street Journal
Walton family
Washington Post
water
Watson, James
Wealth of Nations (Smith)
welfare
West, Michael
wet-bulb temperature
wheat
Whippman, Ruth
White, Curtis
Whitehead, Emily
white supremacy
wilderness, protected
wildlife
Wilkinson, Richard
Williams, Jerry
Williams, Ted
wind power
Wired
Wisconsin
Wohlforth, Charles
Wojcicki, Anne
Wojcicki, Stanley
Wojcicki, Susan
women’s rights
Woods, Darren
World Bank
World Happiness Report
World Meteorological Organization
World Petroleum Congress (Beijing, 1997)
World War II
Worster, Donald
Wozniak, Steve
Y Combinator
Yellowstone
Yosemite Valley
Youtube
Yudkowsky, Eliezer
Zhang, Feng
Zinke, Ryan
Zuckerberg, Mark
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Radio Free Vermont
Oil and Honey
The Global Warming Reader
Eaarth
American Earth
The Bill McKibben Reader
Fight Global Warming Now
Deep Economy
The Comforting Whirlwind
Wandering Home
Enough
Long Distance
Hundred Dollar Holiday
Maybe One
Hope, Human and Wild
The Age of Missing Information
The End of Nature
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BILL MCKIBBEN is a founder of the environmental organization 350.org and was among the early advocates for action on global warming. He is the author of seventeen books, including the bestsellers The End of Nature, Eaarth, and Deep Economy. He is the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College and the winner of the Gandhi Prize, the Thomas Merton Prize, and the Right Livelihood Prize. He lives in Vermont. You can sign up for email updates here.
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CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
An Opening Note on Hope
PART ONE: The Size of the Board
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
PART TWO: Leverage
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
PART THREE: The Name of the Game
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
PART FOUR: An Outside Chance
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Epilogue: Grounded
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
Also by Bill McKibben
About the Author
Copyright
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* Thatcher was nonetheless not a climate denier; as early as 1989 she told the United Nations that global warming was “real enough for us to make changes and sacrifices so we may not live at the expense of future generations.”