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Climate Change Policy Failures: Why Conventional Mitigation Approaches Cannot Succeed 1st Edition

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At the recent UN Climate Change Conferences in Copenhagen and Cancun, the developed nations promised hundreds of billions of dollars in financial aid to help developing countries overcome global climate change dangers. Moreover, developed nations need to spend billions more to limit their own greenhouse gas pollution, the cause of global warming and climate change. Will all this money and effort be wasted? This book argues that nearly all of the world's climate policy makers and expert advisors have been making tragic mistakes that ensure the failures of climate change mitigation attempts.The great majority of climate change programs, from American congressional bills to cap-and-trade economic incentive schemes to the Kyoto Protocol and other international treaties, rely on greenhouse gas emissions-reduction targets that will prove “too little, too late” by deferring strict pollution controls too far into the future. The inadequate emissions-reduction measures also will not be able to bridge the gap between the highest priorities of developed and developing nations. Vast discharges of greenhouse gases authorized by weak emissions-reduction programs in the next several decades virtually guarantee that the cumulative concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere will keep increasing while climate change continues to grow worse.Rather than adopting ineffectual emissions-reduction programs that cannot limit the cumulative concentration of greenhouse gases in the air, this book proposes a shift to a “clean” technology-replacement strategy that could support current lifestyles and expanding economic development without further damaging our climate. The only way to reduce the greenhouse gas levels in the atmosphere enough to decrease climate change hazards is to replace large pollution sources as rapidly as feasible in as many industrial sectors and geographic regions as possible with “clean” alternative technologies, processes, and methods.

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981435564X
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978-9814355643
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1st
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World Scientific Pub Co Inc
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April 16, 2012
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6.75 x 0.75 x 9.75 inches
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257 pages
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Joel A. Mintz

A Work That Deserves Attention

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This important book deserves a place on the bookshelf of everyone concerned about the ongoing destruction of the Earth's climate. It is well written and cogently argued. Professor Latin's thesis--that conventional approaches to climate change mitigation are deeply flawed and a strategy of decarbonization, focusing on the development and dissemination of GHG-free replacement technology, is urgently needed--is certain to be controversial. Whether one agrees or disagrees with his contentions, however, Latin's timely, vigorous and original analysis is sure to provoke thought.

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A Book That Can Help to Save the Planet

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Of the recent spate of books about global climate change, Climate Change Policy Failures provides the clearest and most insightful critique of why current policies addressing the issue are doomed to fail. And Professor Latin offers the most creative and effective solutions for averting the climate-related devastation the scientific community warns we are facing. For lay readers, policy makers, and technocrats alike, this is essential reading for anyone interested in one of the most critical issues of our time.

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A truth-telling work policymakers and citizens should read

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2016

Howard Latin is unafraid to look straight at the issue and give us the straight answer about how successful we are going to be at dealing with it, using the partial measures we are planning. His diagnosis of the problem and prescription for addressing it is one that many may not wish to hear, but we do not have the luxury of wishing things were other than they are. Today, we have the beginnings of a movement to Keep Fossil Fuels in the Ground. But four years ago Latin wrote "We need to eliminate as much GHG pollution as feasible as soon as feasible in as many contexts as feasible." He explained that when the bathtub is overflowing, that it really doesn't do much to sop up some of the mess, that you need to stop adding water. The metaphor for what we are doing to the atmosphere is apt and concise. The truth is not easy to see or hear, but Latin has done the world a service in stating it, clearly and without softening the message. We owe him gratitude for his forthright statement of the way things are and what will be necessary for the preservation of civilization as we know it.

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David Driesen

Scary and Provocative

Reviewed in the United States on August 2, 2012

In this provocative book, Howard Latin makes a persuasive case that the standard policy prescriptions for reducing greenhouse gas emissions (like cap-and-trade programs with slowly declining caps) will not suffice. In making this case he offers underappreciated insights into the dynamics of the climate problem and an imaginative proposal for doing better. This book stands out from the crowd because of its defiance of conventional wisdom and its willingness to grapple with the scary dynamics of a serious, cumulative, and irreversible problem.

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Craig N. Oren

An Extremely Valuable Book

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2012

The problem of global warming threatens our civilization. In this important book, Professor Howard A. Latin, an expert on environmental law, critiques as too timid the current proposals to curb global warming. He points out that the solutions that have been advanced will only slow global warming by a minute amount. He argues eloquently that what we need instead is a crash effort to develop a safe and carbon-free source of energy -- that is, to de-carbonize our economy. Latin, who is particularly knowledgeable about international environmental law, points out that global cooperation is needed, but it will not occur so long as developing nations are told they must curb growth that decreases poverty. Everyone interested in global warming should read the book and consider Latin's proposals.

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stephensugarman

A must read for those concerned about climate change

Reviewed in the United States on July 30, 2012

Professor Latin shows that existing climate-change policies are too weak. The reality of world population increase and the drive for improved material standards of living in the developing world requires far more dramatic action. Only an immediate and substantial investment in new greenhouse-free-gas technologies seems likely to be able to head off the pending disaster. We can't wait for cap and trade or carbon tax schemes that don't promise large carbon reductions for 30 years. A powerful critique of current worldwide efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.

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