EBAN GOODSTEIN is Professor of Economics, Lewis and Clark College, Portland, Oregon and author of The Trade-Off Myth: Fact and Fiction About Jobs and the Environment (1999) and Economics and the Environment, now in its fifth edition. He is the Project Director of Focus the Nation, a major educational initiative that co-ordinates teams of faculty, students, and staff at over a thousand colleges, universities, and high schools in the United States, to engage in a nationwide discussion on "Global Warming Solutions for America."
"Fighting for Love is a passionate assertion of the power of the
interconnection of the natural world. Blending science, economics
and personal reflections--he urges us to consider our very love of
the natural world as a key weapon in our fight to save it. But the
book is more than lofty notions about love and the linking of
things. Goodstein's practical side shines throughout, too,
especially in his exhortation that we must stabilize emissions and
invest tens of billions in clean-energy technologies sooner than
later. It's too late to avoid "lower end" warming, he writes, so
the cause now is to avoid catastrophic warming. Indeed, he believes
avoiding this is the key challenge for those living at this point
in history. Goodstein's optimism is not as divorced from reality;
he understands that victory will require political leadership,
global catch-up, governmental structures and nonstop citizen
involvement in the political process. What's most refreshing about
Fighting for Love is the fact that the author has responded to his
own call for action and is now serving as project director for
Focus the Nation, an educational initiative with the goal of
holding a "nationwide discussion" on January 31, 2008 about global
warming solutions. Goodstein has been traveling the country,
coordinating colleges and high schools, generally getting people
geared up for a fight to save the future." --Sacramento Weekly
"Goodstein provides a good nonscientific account of the global
climate change problem that is an informative read for nonscience
audiences at all levels." --Choice
"The author offers a realistic, ambitious, and hopeful political
solution to avoid a century of mass extinction, a vision grounded
in a moral view that embraces the interconnection of all life forms
on the planet." --Abstracts of Public Administration, Development,
and Environment
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