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1) Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, And Deception To Keep You Misinformed
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Liars-Al Gore, the United Nations, the New York Times. The global warming lobby, relentless in its push for bigger government, more spending, and more regulation, will use any means necessary to scare you out of your wits-as well as your tax dollars and your liberties-with threats of rising oceans, deadly droughts, and unspeakable future consequences of "climate change." In pursuing their anti-energy, anti-capitalist, and pro-government agenda, the...
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Dans le mode de vie impérial qui est le ntre, à ce stade avancé du capitalisme marqué par l'impératif de la croissance, les moindres détails du quotidien, la construction de notre identité comme société et comme individus, tout repose sur la constitution d'un ailleurs o nos entreprises exploitent la force de travail comme elles ne peuvent le faire ici, et o nous faisons disparaître nos déchets et fructifier nos surplus.
Cette dynamique...
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In this historical and comparative study, Christopher McGrory Klyza explores why land-management policies in mining, forestry, and grazing have followed different paths and explains why public-lands policy in general has remained virtually static over time. According to Klyza, understanding the different philosophies that gave rise to each policy regime is crucial to reforming public-lands policy in the future. Klyza begins by delineating how...
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Al Gore is bad for the planet... Talk about really inconvenient truths--that's one of the many you'll find in Iain Murray's rollicking exposé of environmental blowhards who waste more energy, endanger more species, and actually kill more people (yes, that's right) than the environmental villains they finger. Did you know that estrogen from birth control and "morning after" pills is causing male fish across America to develop female sex organs? Funny...
5) El maquiavelismo degollado: Por la cristiana sabiduría de España y de Austria Claudio Clemente S. J
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El maquiavelismo degollado, panegírico escrito por el jesuita Claudio Clemente en 1637, es mucho más que una curiosidad de la historia de las ideas políticas, representa en muchos sentidos la síntesis de la política del barroco; en él se conjugan las posturas más agresivas dirigidas a combatir el accionar «inmoral y anticristiano» de El príncipe de Maquiavelo, escrito en 1513. Así, desde la monarquía española, el imperio austriaco y el...
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This book presents analyses of the concepts of public health, sustainability and policy change. It describes stakeholder analysis and national health accounts frameworks in Gambia. The case study is the Sustainability Impact Assessment framework and its role in policy change in immunization systems.
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In 1980, with the passage of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, Congress created the Superfund as a mechanism to clean up the toxic legacy of the industrial and chemical revolutions. Over a decade later, the consensus is that the program has failed: too much has been spent and too little accomplished. Harold Barnett unravels the history of this failure, examining the economic and political factors that contributed...
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Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Wisconsin citizens have promoted innovative environmental programs. During the 1960s Wisconsin was again at the forefront of the movement advancing mainstream political environmentalism. Thomas Huffman traces the rise of environmentalism in the Badger State during these key years, when the people of Wisconsin instituted policies in such areas as outdoor recreation and resource planning, water pollution...
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"The story of Juliana v. United States and the committed young people behind it will give you hope in the next generation." -Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction
Do our children have a right to inherit a livable planet? Is the government obliged to protect it? Twenty-one young people from across America have sued the federal government over climate change, charging that actions promoting a fossil fuel economy violate their constitutional...
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Con frecuencia, la educación ambiental se ha asociado a los valores, aunque en muchos casos las distintas partes interesadas no tengan claridad sobre cuáles, por qué se incluyen unos y no otros o las implicaciones prácticas de asumir algunos de ellos. Para responder a tales cuestiones, este libro se ocupa del problema asociado a los valores bioéticos presentados tácitamente en la política nacional de educación ambiental en Colombia, en la...
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They blazed new trails for people seeking a better world. These are their stories.
In 1970, a group of young people chose to take their values to work at a new sort of profession. They formed the Public Interest Research Group, a nonpartisan, nonprofit voice for consumers, taxpayers, open and honest government, and the environment.
Working under the renowned consumer advocate Ralph Nader, they helped prove it's possible to make real and lasting improvements...
13) Manifiesto ecológico político: Cómo construir una clase ecológica consciente y orgullosa de sí misma
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En la tradición del fulgurante Manifiesto Comunista, los autores de este libro afirman que un espectro acecha al mundo: el ecologismo. Sin embargo, a diferencia de lo que sucedía hace más de un siglo, ese fantasma no convoca multitudes orgullosas detrás de eslóganes inspiradores. Las preocupaciones ecológicas—el clima, la energía, el acceso al agua, la biodiversidad—están en todas partes y voces de alarma nos taladran la cabeza desde hace...
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From Michael Klare, the renowned expert on natural resource issues, an invaluable account of a new and dangerous global competition
The world is facing an unprecedented crisis of resource depletion-a crisis that goes beyond "peak oil" to encompass shortages of coal and uranium, copper and lithium, water and arable land. With all of the planet's easily accessible resource deposits rapidly approaching exhaustion, the desperate hunt for supplies has...
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A guided tour of a revolution in the making that promises to change our lives
Global warming, rolling black outs, massive tanker spills, oil dependence: our profligate ways have doomed us to suffer such tragedies, right? Perhaps, but Vijay Vaitheeswaran, the energy and environment correspondent for The Economist, sees great opportunity in the energy realm today, and Power to the People is his fiercely independent and irresistibly entertaining look...
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Hoy hablamos de hongos, líquenes, ingeniería de bacterias, microbiota, inteligencia artificial. Ya no estamos en un mundo de objetos que responden a la voluntad humana, sino en uno de vivientes que se superponen con nosotros y nos generan desconcierto. ¿Son amigos o enemigos? ¿Cómo funcionan? Si el mandato de "modernizar" que nos trajo hasta acá buscaba cortar amarras con todo lo que parecía arcaico y proyectarnos, gracias a la ciencia, directamente...
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El colapso ecológico –y el discurso que insiste con la catástrofe planetaria– se han vuelto parte de nuestro sentido común. En esta antología, Eduardo Galeano propone una mirada alternativa, que es en realidad una constante en toda su obra, para acercarnos al mismo problema: nos recuerda nuestro vínculo insoslayable con la naturaleza, explora su riqueza y sus formas de resistencia, y hasta señala con alarma nuestra tenacidad urbana y "moderna"...
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In this timely book, former Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham debunks the myths that warp our current debate over energy, and offers new solutions to the real problems we face in America.
Drawing on the very latest thinking from experts in industry and academia, and his own experiences running America's Energy Department, he proposes a fresh approach to meeting our daunting energy threats. This book effectively answers how America and the world...
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Published for the first time in the United States, The Little Green Handbook is a unique reference work that illustrates the most important global developments facing us today, explains them, and suggests area for positive change. It relates physical trends to social and political repercussions, drawing together evidence from many interrelated fields to explain the science behind the news stories, sound bytes, and cocktail-party banter. Just how serious...
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Do you know what's in your gasoline?
Our addiction to gasoline threatens our lives as we breathe toxic carcinogens in our fuel. For over 100 years, the oil industry duped the public and collaborated with the federal government to protect its gasoline market. As a result, consumers waste billions of dollars, public health is compromised, and the nation remains captive to foreign oil.
Authors Burl Haigwood and Doug Durante tell this story based...
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