Author: Jeffrey Simpson, Mark Jaccard and Nic Rivers. Published by McClelland & Stewart Ltd., 2007, 1st Edition. SIGNED by one of the Authors (Mark Jaccard). Printed in Canada. Like New Condition HARDCOVER BOOK, and Dust Jacket. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 8.25 x 5.5 inch, 265 pages including references.
HOT AIR, Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge, lays out in convincing and easily understandable terms the few simple policies that Canada must adopt right away in order to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions over the next few decades.
It even shows how these policies can be designed to have minimal negative effects. It starts with an alarming description of the climate threat to our country. Then it shifts to an alarming description of how Canadians have been betrayed by their politicians (“We’re working on it!”), their industrialists (“Things aren’t that bad, really, and voluntary guidelines will be good enough.”), and even their environmentalists (“Energy efficiency can be profitable, and people can change their lifestyles!”) All of this, of course, reinforces the myths that forceful policies are not needed. With evidence from other countries that are successfully addressing climate change, Hot Air shows why these are the only policies that will work — and why this is a matter of life and death for all of us.
