TY  - BOOK
AU  - Orr,David W.
TI  - Dangerous years: climate change, the long emergency, and the way forward 
SN  - 9780300225105
AV  - QC903 
U1  - 363.73874 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New Haven, London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Climatic changes
KW  - Sustainability
KW  - Environmental policy
KW  - Citizen participation
KW  - Environmental responsibility
KW  - Climate Change
KW  - Climat
KW  - Changements
KW  - Durabilité de l'environnement
KW  - Responsabilité environnementale
KW  - climate change
KW  - aat
KW  - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
KW  - Infrastructure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - General
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-285) and index; Prologue; The road to Montana --; A perfect storm --; The challenges of sustainability --; Resilience --; The problem of denial --; Economy --; Governance --; Mind --; Heart --; The long revolution --; Sustainable democracy? --; Cities in a hotter time --; The Oberlin Project
N2  - Considers future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet, more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability; "David Orr...pulls no punches: even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet--more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability. Yet we are not fated to destroy the Earth, Orr insists. He imagines sustainability as a quest and a transition built upon robust and durable democratic and economic institutions, as well as changes in heart and mindset. The transition, he writes, is beginning from the bottom up in communities and neighborhoods. He lays out specific principles and priorities to guide us toward enduring harmony between human and natural systems." -- Publisher's description
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