Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse /

"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives ... It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for better and for worse, of our actions." So writes David Orr in Down to the Wire, a sober and eloqu...

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Main Author: Orr, David W., 1944- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
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505 0 |a Governance -- Late-night thoughts about democracy in the long emergency -- Leadership in the long emergency -- The carbon connection -- The spirit of connection -- Millennial hope -- Hope at the end of our tether -- The upshot : what is to be done? 
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