This Changes Everything (101 page)

corporate,
19

dawning of,
18
–19

of markets,
39
,
85
,
171
,
412

successes of,
19

Global North,
49
,
314

see also
developed world; postindustrialized nations

Global Risks report, World Economic Forum,
112

Global South,
53
,
77
,
181
,
309
,
314
,
412

Blockadia movements in,
412

environmentalism in,
202

see also
developing world

global warming,
see
climate change

Globe and Mail,
325
,
333

God’s Last Offer
(Ayres),
280

God Species,
The
(Lynas),
279

gold, mining of,
296

Goldenberg, Suzanne,
312

Golden, KC,
304
,
320

Goldman Sachs,
51
,
208
n,
352

goods, lasting vs. disposable,
85
,
90

Gore, Al,
41
,
67
,
85
,
150
,
155
,
211
,
212
,
218
,
230
,
233
,
241
,
242
,
244
,
385

government intervention,
42
,
43
,
178
,
201
–3

necessity for,
54
–55

government regulation:

corruption in,
333
–34

laxity of,
330
–31,
333

governments, collusion between
extractive industries and,
297
–99,
303
,
306
–7,
308
,
360
,
361
–66,
378
–80

Grandin, Greg,
455

Grantham, Jeremy,
233

Grantham, Mayo, Van Otterloo & Co.,
233

Grantham Foundation for the Protection of the Environment,
233
n

Great Barrier Reef,
147
–48,
301

Great Depression,
89
,
115
,
454

Great Transition,
89
,
115

Greece,
466

austerity programs in,
9
,
108
,
131
–32,
154

economic problems of,
297

government repression of anti-mining movement in,
297
–98,
303

oil and gas exploration in,
22
,
181
–82

Skouries forest mining project in,
293
–94,
296
–98,
303
,
314
,
342
,
347
,
445

WTO challenges brought against,
65

Green for All,
92

Green Alliance, U.K.,
90

green consumerism,
211
–13

“green deserts,”
180

green energy entrepreneurs, free market and,
69
–70

Green Energy and Green Economy Act,
66
–69

green energy programs, trade law challenges to,
64
–65,
68
–69

green fascism,
54

Greenhouse Development Rights framework,
417
–18

greenhouse effect,
74
,
213

greenhouse gas emissions,
6
,
64
–65,
90
,
198
,
219
,
259

computer models of,
270

cost of,
112

countries’ responsibility for internal,
79

cumulative effect of,
21
,
40
,
56
,
175
,
409
–10,
416

decreased work hours as offset to,
94

deregulation
and,
210

distorted global picture of,
79
,
411
–12

fracking and,
129
,
143
–44,
214
,
217
,
304

free trade and,
80
–83

global gas boom and,
143
–44

globalized agriculture and,
77
–78

increase in,
20
,
452

low wages and high,
81
–82

reduction of,
see
emission reduction

from shipping,
76
,
79

standards for,
25

WTO regulations and,
71

see also
carbon emissions

Greenland:

extraction industry in,
385

melting ice sheet in,
12
,
148
,
385

green NGOs, geoengineering and,
264
,
280

Green Party (New Brunswick),
374

Greenpeace,
84
,
156
,
197
,
199
,
201
,
205
,
233
n,
264
,
356

anti-drilling protests of,
300

EDF spying on,
362

Greenpeace U.K.,
376

green technology,
85
,
87
,
89
–90

for developing world,
76
,
85

investment in,
89
,
156
,
400
–407,
451

green towns,
406
–7

Greenwich, University of,
101

Gross Domestic Product (GDP),
92

Grunwald, Michael,
124

Guarani,
221

Guardian,
149
,
312
,
346
,
363
–64,
383

Guay, Justin,
352

Gulf Restoration Network,
425

Gupta, Sanjay,
430

Guujaaw,
368
–69,
383

Haida Gwaii,
369

Haida Nation, land claims of,
368
–69

Haimen, China,
350

Hair, Jay,
84
,
191

Haiti,
457

Haiyan, Typhoon,
107
,
175
,
406

Halkidiki, Greece,
294
,
342
,
445

Halliburton,
330

Halliburton
Loophole,
328

Hällström, Niclas,
413
–14

Halstead Property,
51

Hamburg, Germany,
96
–97

Hamilton, Clive,
89
,
175
,
264

Hansen, James,
22
,
41
,
73
,
140

Hansen, Wiebke,
97

Harper administration (Canada),
302
–3,
362

environmental protections weakened by,
381
–82

“war on science” of,
326
–28

Harter, John,
313

Harvard Medical School,
105

Harvard University,
81
,
354
–55

Hauper, Debbi,
373

Have
You Ever Seen a Moose?,
26
–27

Hawking, Stephen,
288

Hayes, Chris,
455
,
456

Heartland Institute,
38
,
40
,
41
,
63
,
72
,
210
n,
211
,
228
n,
235
,
451

billboard campaign of,
41
–42,
50
–51

Center on Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate at,
50
–51

climate conferences of,
43
,
204
,
286
n,
394

corporate funding of,
44
–45

Sixth International Conference on Climate Change (ICCC) of 2011,
31
–35,
38
,
39
–40,
43
,
45
,
47
,
53
n,
59
–60,
91
,
119
,
142

Heathrow, protests against new runway at,
249
–50

heating prices,
112

heat waves,
13
–14

Heiltsuk First Nation,
338
–42,
363

Heinz Endowments,
216

Henderson, Jonathan,
425
–26,
427

Heritage Foundation,
39

heritage trust funds,
112
–13

Hernández Navarro, Luis,
464
–65

herring,
338
–39,
425

Hertsgaard, Mark,
141
–42

high-density living,
91

Highway 12, big rigs
on,
318
–19,
342
,
370

highway system, national,
124

Hillman, Tim,
99

Hiroshima, atomic bombing of,
277
–78

Hochschild, Adam,
456

homeostasis, quest for,
446
–47

Honduras,
222

honeybees,
439

Hong Kong,
13

“Honour the Treaties” (Neil Young tour),
383
–84

Hopi,
398

Hoquiam, Wash.,
349

hormones,
421
,
424

chemical disruption of,
429
,
433
,
436
,
439

Horn of Africa,
47

Horner, Chris,
32
,
34
,
45
,
228
n,
411

House of Representatives, U.S.,
35

Energy and Environment Subcommittee of,
47

housing,
92

affordable,
7
,
40
,
91
,
156
,
157

energy-efficient,
91

retrofitting of,
122

sizes of,
90

subsidized,
10

Housing Authority, New York City,
104
,
105
n

Houston, Tex.,
47

Housty, Jess,
338
,
339
,
341
–42

Howarth, Robert,
143
,
217

Howell, Lord,
313

Huanca, Nilda Rojas,
161

Hudson’s Bay,
435

Hugo, Victor,
29

human reproduction,
419
–30

human rights,
177
,
197
,
453

in international law,
167

human rights abuses, “green,”
222
–23

Human Rights Watch,
308

humans:

in dominion over nature,
41
,
75
,
177
,
186

as “God Species,”
279
,
289
,
395

Hungary,
75

hunger,
100
,
135

hurricanes,
4
,
9
,
14
,
47
n,
105
,
107
,
108
,
404
,
407

hybrid cars,
35

hydraulic fracturing,
see
fracking

hydrocarbons,
237

metabolizing of,
433

reserves of,
150

hydroelectric power,
97
,
100
,
182

Iceland,
243

ice shelves,
176

Ickes, Harold,
293

Idaho,
318
,
370

Idaho Rivers United,
319

Idle No More movement,
381
–82,
397

Ierissos, Greece,
295
,
298

Ijaw Nation,
307
–8,
309
,
370

Ijaw Youth Council,
307
–8

immigration,
49
,
156

Imperial Oil,
145

incentives,
18
,
136
–39

income, guaranteed basic,
26
,
461

Inconvenient Truth, An
(film),
150
,
211
,
212
,
230

independence movements,
454
,
455

Independent,
416

India,
5
,
24
,
55
,
75
,
82
,
88
n,
175
,
202

anti-coal movement in,
350

carbon emissions from,
409
–10,
411
,
412

coolant factories in,
219
–20

fast-growing economy of,
40
,
152

starvation in,
135

wealth in,
114

WTO challenges brought against,
65
,
68
,
70
,
126

WTO challenges brought by,
65

Indian
Affairs Bureau, U.S.,
396

Indigenous Environmental Network,
318
,
332

Indigenous Network on Economies and Trade,
367

Indigenous peoples,
67
,
181
,
200

in Blockadia movement,
139
,
177
,
373
–74,
380
–84,
443
–45

carbon cowboys’ preying on,
220
–21

children of, in church-run schools,
339
,
379