This Changes Everything (98 page)

wealth creation and,
46
–52

weather patterns and,
269

climate change denial,
2
–5,
26
,
43
,
91
,
119
,
282
–83,
394
,
407
,
451

economics as factor in,
3
,
45
–46,
59
–60

extractive industries’ funding of,
44
–45,
149
,
198

increase in,
35

partisan approach to,
35
–36

right-wing,
31
–63,
154
,
178

socioeconomic privilege and,
46
–52

technological miracles and,
3

Climate of Corruption
(Bell),
33

climate debt,
5
,
7
,
457

owed to developing world,
5
,
7
,
40
,
387
,
408
–18

owed to Indigenous peoples,
387
,
388
–99,
408

seen as politically toxic,
414

Climate Depot,
32
,
45

Climategate,
41

climate justice,
see
climate
debt

climate manipulation,
see
geoengineering

climate movement:

coming of age of,
11
–12

deregulated capitalism and,
20

economic justice and,
see
climate debt

growing power and interconnectedness of,
451
–52

historical precedents for,
452
–57,
459
–61

Keystone XL protests and resurgence of,
139
–40

lack of sustained and populist,
157

moral imperative in,
336
,
386
–87,
464

and need for viable
economic alternatives to extraction industries,
349
,
398
,
399
,
400
–401,
403
,
413
–18

origins of,
73
–75

see also
Blockadia

climate science,
46
,
59
,
127
,
152
,
158

climate treaty negotiations,
11
,
77
–80,
411

see also
emission reduction

Clinton, Bill,
83
–85,
213
,
231
–32

Clinton administration, carbon trading proposed by,
218

Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting of 2006,
231

Clodumar, Kinza,
165

Clorox,
356
,
357

cloud brightening,
258

cloud seeding,
279

Club of Rome,
185
–86

CNN,
45

Coal & Climate Summit,
200

coal,
102
,
128
,
143
,
159
,
176
,
214
,
224

capitalism and,
175
,
176

collapsing U.S. market for,
319
–20

exporting of,
144
n,
301
,
320
,
322
,
349
,
352
,
362
,
374
,
376

lignite,
136

as “portable climate,”
174

rail transport of,
234
,
362
,
389
,
397

water power vs.,
171
–73

coal-fired power plants,
3
,
67
–68,
81
–82,
83
,
97
,
136
–39,
141
,
200
,
208
,
236
,
247
–48

global campaign against,
319
–20,
348
–49,
350
–52,
365

public utilities and,
100
,
196

coal industry,
197
,
300
–301

opposition to,
see
anti-coal movements

political and economic power of,
316
,
321

see also
extractive industries

coal mining,
145
,
398

in Appalachia,
309
,
353

in Montana,
320
,
342
–43,
346
,
370
,
388
–93,
395
,
397
,
445

mountaintop removal in,
2
,
303
,
309
,
310
,
329
,
353

water supply contamination from,
332

coal-powered economies,
88

Coates, Ta-Nehisi,
415

Cobenais, Marty,
318
–19,
332

Cochabamba, Bolivia,
444
n

Cohen, Nick,
156

Cold War,
15
,
42
,
43
,
74
,
261

collective action,
36

collective sacrifice,
16
–17

colleges and universities:

divestment movement and,
354
–55,
401

renewable energy
investment by,
401
–2

Colombia,
202
,
348
,
376
–77

colonialism,
154
,
370
,
414
–16

coal and,
173
,
176

extractivism and,
169
–70

Industrial Revolution and,
171
,
175
,
457

Scientific Revolution and,
170
–71

Colorado,
52
,
357
n

Colorado School of Public Health,
428

Combes, Maxime,
304
n,
317
–18

Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow,
45

Common Sense
(Paine),
314

communism,
20
,
39
,
42
,
44
,
177

communities,
106

building of,
92

climate change and,
364
–65

renewable energy in,
131
–32,
133

see also
worldview, communitarian

Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) programs,
405

compassion,
62
–63,
462

Competitive Enterprise Institute,
32
,
45
,
411

complexity,
267
,
290

composting systems,
108

computer models, of climate change,
270
–71

Conant, Lionel,
380

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla
Indian Reservation,
319

Conference Board of Canada,
145

Congo,
220

ConocoPhillips,
226
,
227
–28,
246

Conservation Fund,
196
,
205

Conservation International,
84
,
189
,
196
,
205
–6,
209
,
211
–12

Conservative Party (Canadian),
36

Constitution, Canadian,
371

construction, green,
90

consumer lifestyles,
2
,
75
,
116
–17

consumption,
116

decrease in,
90

excess,
85
,
91
,
92
,
93
,
210
,
412
,
413

green,
211
–13,
252

container ships,
76
,
79

Conway, Erik,
42

Cook, James,
266

Cook, Katsi,
419

coolants,
219
–20

“Cool Dudes” (McCright and Dunlap),
46
–47

Coon, David,
374

co-ops:

energy,
130
,
131
–32

worker-run,
122
–23,
133

Coos Bay, Oreg.,
349

Copenhagen Climate Summit of 2009,
11
–14,
34
,
150
,
262
,
451

copper,
91
n,
296

coral, coral reefs,
301
,
348
,
434

Corexit,
432

Cornell University,
143
,
217
,
317

corn ethanol,
239
,
240

corporate donors,
83
,
210
n

corporations,
25

centralization under,
179

crisis exploited by,
8

democracy vs.,
7

deregulation of,
19
,
20
,
72
,
142
,
154
,
210

disaster prevention at,
51
–52

environmental groups’ cooperation with,
196
,
206
–11

freedom from regulation for,
19

free speech for,
151

goals of private,
129
–30

ideology of,
75

impact of climate change
on,
49

Indigenous peoples vs.,
221
–23

natural world vs.,
60
–61

political power of,
199
,
124
–26,
141
–52

right-wing think tanks funded by,
44
,
50

taxes avoided by,
115

USCAP and,
226
–28

Correa, Rafael,
180
–81,
410
–11

corruption, of government regulators,
333
–34

Cosbey, Aaron,
70

Costa Rica,
348

Coste, Torrance,
363

“Cowboys and Indians alliance,”
302
,
318
–19,
322
–23,
346

crash of 1929,
88

Crawford, Julia Trigg,
361

Crompton, Tom,
60

crops,
9
,
34
,
57

crowdfunding,
198

Crow Reservation,
389
,
397

Crutzen, Paul,
261
–62

Cuadrilla,
130

cultural cognition,
36
,
44
–45,
59
,
63
,
186

Culture of Narcissism
(Lasch),
117

Czechoslovakia,
178

Czech Republic,
42
–43,
144
,
348

Dai, Aiguo,
272
,
275

Daily Mail,
54
54

Dallas, Tex.,
329

Daly, Herman,
173

dams,
180
,
183
,
202

Daniel,
Patrick,
331
–32

dark money,
44

Darling, Jay Norwood “Ding,”
185

Dauphin Island Sea Lab,
433
–34

David, Ned,
247

Davis, David Brion,
463

Dayaneni, Gopal,
448

Day One,
391

DDT,
185
,
201
,
203
,
207

de Boer, Yvo,
87

decade zero,
24
,
143

Dediu, Doina,
344

deep ecology,
75

deepwater drilling,
see
offshore drilling, deepwater

Defense Department, U.S.,
113

deforestation,
202

degrowth strategies:

selective,
93
–95

for wealthy nations,
88
,
89

Delaware River Basin,
346

Delgamuukw v. British Columbia,
371

Delingpole, James,
42

Delucchi, Mark A.,
101

democracy:

Blockadia and,
361
,
380

climate change as crisis in,
363
–64

corporations vs.,
7

free trade agreements as threat to,
358
–60

Democratic party,
35
,
83
,
141
,
153
,
234

climate change accepted by majority in,
35
–36

climate change
deniers in,
46

Demos,
216

Denmark, renewable energy in,
70
,
131
–32,
138
,
179
,
398

deregulation,
8
,
19
,
20
,
72
,
142
,
154
,
210

Derham, William,
171

derivatives market, weather,
8
–9

De Schutter, Olivier,
134
–35

“Design to Win: Philanthropy’s Role in the Fight Against Global Warming,”
199

Detroit, Mich.,
154

developed world:

blame passed by,
82

capping of emissions from,
218

carbon emissions
from,
40
,
75
,
79
–80,
411

climate debt of,
387
,
388
–99,
408
–18,
457

developing world,
75
,
110
,
180
,
257

climate debt as excuse for pollution by,
412

climate debt owed to,
5
,
7
,
40
,
387
,
408
–18