{"product_id":"carbon-shift-thomas-homer-dixon-9780307357199","title":"Carbon Shift: How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and Our Lives)","description":"\"\u003ci\u003eWe are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die.\u003c\/i\u003e\" \u003cbr\u003e-James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of \u003cb\u003eThe Revenge of Gaia\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eI don't see why people are so worried about global warming destroying the planet - peak oil will take care of that.\u003c\/i\u003e\" \u003cbr\u003e-Matthew Simmons, energy investment banker and author of \u003cb\u003eTwilight in the Desert\u003c\/b\u003e The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe twin crises of climate change and peaking oil production are converging on us. If they are not to cook the planet and topple our civilization, we will need informed and decisive policies, clear-sighted innovation, and a lucid understanding of what is at stake. We will need to know where we stand, and which direction we should start out in. These are the questions \u003cb\u003eCarbon Shift\u003c\/b\u003e addresses. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThomas Homer-Dixon, author of \u003cb\u003eThe Ingenuity Gap\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eThe Upside of Down\u003c\/b\u003e, argues that the two problems are really one: a carbon problem. We depend on carbon energy to fuel our complex economies and societies, and at the same time this very carbon is fatally contaminating our atmosphere. To solve one of these problems will require solving the other at the same time. In other words, we still have a chance to tackle two monumental challenges with one innovative solution: clean, low-carbon energy. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCarbon Shift\u003c\/b\u003e brings together six of Canada's world-class experts to explore the question of where we stand now, and where we might be headed. It explores the economics, the geology, the politics, and the science of the predicament we find ourselves in. And it gives each expert the chance to address what they think are the most important facets of the complex problem before us. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere are no experts in Canada better positioned to explain the world that awaits us just beyond the horizon, and no better guide to that future than this collection of their thoughts. Densely packed with information, but accessibly written and powerfully timely, \u003cb\u003eCarbon Shift \u003c\/b\u003ewill be an indispensable handbook to the difficult choices that lie ahead. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Hughes\u003c\/b\u003e is a former senior geoscientist with the Geological Survey of Canada \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDavid Keith\u003c\/b\u003e is Canada Research Chair in Energy and the Environment, University of Calgary \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeff Rubin\u003c\/b\u003e is Chief Economist, Chief Strategist and Managing Director, CIBC World Markets \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Jaccard\u003c\/b\u003e is professor of environmental economics in the School of Resource and Environmental Management at Simon Fraser University and a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWilliam Marsden\u003c\/b\u003e is an investigative reporter and author of \u003cb\u003eStupid to the Last Drop\u003c\/b\u003e How Alberta Is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (And Doesn't Seem to Care) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJeffrey Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e is a \u003ci\u003eGlobe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e national columnist and author, with Mark Jaccard, of \u003cb\u003eHot Air\u003c\/b\u003e Meeting Canada's Climate Change Challenge \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith a foreword by \u003cb\u003eRonald Wright\u003c\/b\u003e, author of \u003cb\u003eA Short History of Progress \u003c\/b\u003eand \u003cb\u003eWhat is America?\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Thomas Homer-Dixon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0307357198\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307357199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage Books Canada\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/13\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 240\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.90h x 5.20w x 0.70d","brand":"Thomas Homer-Dixon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48448791183615,"sku":"9780307357199","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_786e1975-f1d0-4da9-a3bf-f0e766812d75.jpg?v=1777260569","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/carbon-shift-thomas-homer-dixon-9780307357199","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}