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Rejecting cries of gloom and doom, Hope for a Heated Planet shows how the fight against global warming can be won by the grassroots efforts of individuals. Robert K. Musil, who led the Nobel Peace Prize winning organization Physicians for Social Responsibility, explains that a growing new climate movement can produce unprecedented change in the economy, public health, and home while saving the planet. Musil draws on personal experience and compelling data in this practical and rigorous analysis of the causes and cures for global warming. The book presents all the players in the most pressing challenge facing society today, from the massive fossil fuel lobby to the enlightened corporations that are joining the movement to go green. Musil thoroughly explains the tremendous potential of renewable energy sources wind, solar, and biofuel and the startling conclusions of experts who say society can do away entirely with fossil fuels. He tells readers about the engaged politicians, activists, religious groups, and students who are already working together against climate change.

But the future depends, Musil insists, on what changes ordinary citizens make. Through personal choices and political engagement, he shows how readers can cut carbon emissions and create green communities where they live. With practical and realistic solutions, Hope for a Heated Planet inspires readers to be accountable and enables them to usher in an age of sustainability for future generations.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #569626 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.00" h x 6.25" w x 9.25" l, 1.06 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 272 pages

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• ISBN13: 9780813544113
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"Hope for a Heated Planet is an important and timely book. Musil not only makes a strong case that a real climate movement is underway, he shows how a public health perspective can help to accelerate this hopeful new movement." -- Jonathan Isham, Editor of Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement

"Hope for a Heated Planet is an important and timely book. Musil not only makes a strong case that a real climate movement is underway, he shows how a public health perspective can help to accelerate this hopeful new movement." ----Jonathan Isham, Editor of Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement

"Hope for a Heated Planet is an important and timely book. Musil not only makes a strong case that a real climate movement is underway, he shows how a public health perspective can help to accelerate this hopeful new movement."--Jonathan Isham, Editor of Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement

"Hope for a Heated Planet is an act of faith, both secular and spiritual. This generous and thoughtful guide to understanding climate change will make all readers want to join the growing climate movement."--Reverend Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals
Hope for a Heated Planet is an excellent synthesis of everything you need to know about global warming, from science to solutions. It is authoritative and accessible, often witty and wise. Musil, a long-time environment and health leader, calls on Americans to get involved - from light bulbs to legislation, from the secular to the spiritual, from the backyard to the ballot box." --Gene Karpinski, President, League of Conservation Voters

"Hope for a Heated Planet is an excellent synthesis of everything you need to know about global warming, from science to solutions. It is authoritative and accessible, often witty and wise. Musil, a long-time environment and health leader, calls on Americans to get involved--from light bulbs to legislation, from the secular to the spiritual, from the backyard to the ballot box."


Reverend Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals

"Hope for a Heated Planet is an important and timely book. Musil not only makes a strong case that a real climate movement is underway, he shows how a public health perspective can help to accelerate this hopeful new movement."


Jonathan Isham, editor of Ignition: What You Can Do to Fight Global Warming and Spark a Movement

"Hope for a Heated Planet offers a clear-eyed assessment of the unprecedented challenge that climate change presents for today's Americans. Musil is a hardheaded yet hopeful Washington insider who is well-positioned to make the case that with a new generation of clean energy--and the energy of citizens across America--there is hope, indeed, for our heated planet."


Chris Flavin, president of the Worldwatch Institute

"Bob Musil has had a bird's eye view of the climate debate almost from its inception, and he has paid careful attention to both the problem and the solutions. This is a masterfully comprehensive account of both where we are and we sure better go."


Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future

"Global warming is a challenge we should meet with hope not fear, and a challenge that will make us stronger as a nation and as a people if we meet it head-on."


Senator Barbara Boxer, Chair, U.S. Senate Environment and Public Works Committee

"In this timely book on how to fight climate change, Musil captures history-in-the-making and offers us genuine hope for a better and sustainable future."


James Gustave Speth, author of The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability

"Optimistic and confident yet sensible and pragmatic, Musil tempers demanding rhetoric with definitive action, offering a voice of both reason and promise that illuminates the ongoing struggle to understand, contain, and reverse the climate-control crisis."


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Hope for a Heated Planet is an act of faith, both secular and spiritual. This generous and thoughtful guide to understanding climate change will make all readers want to join the growing climate movement. --Reverend Richard Cizik, Vice President for Governmental Affairs of the National Association of Evangelicals

Hope for a Heated Planet is an excellent synthesis of everything you need to know about global warming, from science to solutions. It is authoritative and accessible, often witty and wise. Musil, a long-time environment and health leader, calls on Americans to get involved - from light bulbs to legislation, from the secular to the spiritual, from the backyard to the ballot box. --Gene Karpinski, President, League of Conservation Voters

Review
"Hope for a Heated Planet is an act of faith, both secular and spiritual. This generous and thoughtful guide to understanding climate change will make all readers want to join the growing climate movement."

Review
"Hope for a Heated Planet is an excellent synthesis of everything you need to know about global warming, from science to solutions. It is authoritative and accessible, often witty and wise. Musil, a long-time environment and health leader, calls on Americans to get involved - from light bulbs to legislation, from the secular to the spiritual, from the backyard to the ballot box."

Customer Reviews

The major public health problem
As a pediatrician interested in preserving the health of the children of the world, I recommend reading this new book. It points out the danger of our continued pollution of our world - especially the greenhouse gasses, and the hope for doing something about it. Everyone can profit from reading it and join his plea to do something about it. Damage is already being seen as the glaciers melt threating the water supply. The hope is that we will care enough to demand action! James E. Jones MD

A Delight to Read
A really fine book -- and, with its informal, lively and accessible prose style, a delight to read. Musil's perspective is appropriately broad throughout. He has done his homework, and obviously thought about the issues wisely and humanely.

Chapters 1-4 and 7 are excellent summaries of a lot of material on climate change and the political, economic, and cultural forces that have brought it about and still foster its persistence; material that everyone, but especially those in high places, ought to know about.

Chapters 5-6 and 8-10 support use of the word "hope" in the book's title. Here Musil assesses the kinds of action that can be taken to prevent climate change or at least slow down its rate, and summarizes the work that has already been done or is being attempted or anticipated along these lines. The emphasis is (appropriately, given the institutional and geographic breadth of the problem) on political action. Though most of the examples are American, the perspective -- like climate change itself -- is consistently international. There is material here for all of us who would like to do something useful about checking climate change.

-- Lincoln Day

Good analysis
This is a pretty good book. It deserves attention of anyone interested in issues of climate change and what you can do about it.

The book advocates for activism, and acts as a primer for those new to the subject.

The author approaches the subject of climate change in the public health domain. As such, he blends numerous side issues into his analysis including the politics, coal lobby, strategy, and the future of energy to name the most prominent. Robert also discusses the value of bringing progressive Christian churches into the fold acknowledging their value to turn the tide toward sustainable solutions.

The Chapter on Coal Lobby is interesting, but if you want a more comprehensive analysis, try Big Coal by Jeff Goddell.

While not a complete evaluation on the subject of climate change, the book is hopeful and seeks to overturn political inertia on the subject.