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Climate Change for Football Fans James Atkins

Climate Change for Football Fans par James Atkins

Climate Change for Football Fans James Atkins


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Résumé

A funny and enlightening book that looks at climate change and football through a series of conversations between a Burnley fan and a professor - can each enlighten the other about their favourite topic?

Climate Change for Football Fans Résumé

Climate Change for Football Fans: A Matter of Life and Death James Atkins

Climate policy hits Turf Moor: follow Burnley's adventure in Europe and their roller-coaster struggle for survival in the Premiership while racing through an unconventional take on climate policy.

This is a funny book, written in the earthy and irreverent language of the terraces. But it has a serious subtext - about climate change. It's a series of conversations between Joe, a Burnley lad who is football mad, and Professor Igor who's obsessed with climate change. Joe thinks that worrying about climate change is a waste of time. Igor can't understand why 22 grown men would put on shorts and run around after a ball. Igor agrees to spend a season with Joe going to every Burnley game, and in return Joe and his family listen to the Professor rattle on about climate policy.

The book examines why preventing climate change is so difficult, and asks whether it is more a social and political problem than a technological one? Will we have to change our lifestyle? Would new legislation addressing climate change be so unpopular with the public that politicians will backtrack? How will industry be affected?

Notes at the back of the book summarize all the serious climate-change material so the reader can look up the important messages in the book without having to stand on the terraces.

Climate Change for Football Fans Avis

Football supporters will never see the world in the same way after reading this book. Professor David JC MacKay Author of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air Even those flawed souls who find climate change more engaging than football will enjoy this quirky take on how to save the planet. Siobhan Parkinson Author and Ireland's Laureate for Children's Literature James Atkins has done the impossible by making the arcane jargon-rich reality of climate policy & science accessible, understandable and fun. Paul Clements-Hunt Head, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative

À propos de James Atkins

James Atkins is Chairman of Vertis Environmental Finance, an emissions trading company in Hungary which he established in 1998. He studied modern languages at Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen. Originally from Cumbria, he has lived in Budapest since 1995. He supports Manchester United, and is married with two children. He writes: I have been feeding off climate policy for over 10 years, having set up an emissions trading company, Vertis Environmental Finance, Hungary. We trade carbon credits in an artificial market created by the European Commission which aims to encourage industrial companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. During this time I have thought a lot about environmental problems and climate change and what governments and individuals can do about them. I have also written about this in articles and in my blog The Bustard http://www.thebustard.com In 2009 a friend suggested that I compile the blog entries into a book in order to expand the readership. Not wanting to repeat what had already been written I started reading around the topic. But I found I kept nodding off or flicking idly to the BBC sport website. Books on climate change are the literary equivalent of a nil-nil draw in a lower division on a wet day. Unlikely to attract much of a crowd. Few books on climate change are readable or enjoyable, despite it being an extremely important topic. So I scrapped what I had written and started trying to find a way of making the book more entertaining. Partly through putting dialogue and humour in it, and partly through introducing the parallel of a more interesting subject.

Sommaire

1. In the pub 2. Getting started 3. People not machines 4. Dimensions 5. Finding the reasons 6. In the mind 7. Routine 8. Digging deeper 9. Mirages 10. Why it's hard to cut emissions 11. More on why it's hard 12. PSV Eindhoven 13. Uncle Frank and democracy 14. The distribution of power 15. Instincts 16. Culture 17. Values 18. Disasters 19. Other animals 20. Vested interests 21. The thin blue line 22. A brush with the carabinieri 23. When in Rome 24. When in Bonn 25. The time it takes 26. Overwhelming complexity 27. Real progress 28. Christmas crisis 29. The wrong targets 30. Marbles 31. Efficiency and redundancy 32. Resolution 33. The wrong comparison 34. The wrong numbers 35. Winging it 36. A new stadium 37. The Great White Hope 38. Write-offs 39. Price of a ticket 40. When money's no object 41. Pricing and industry 42. Signals 43. False choice 44. Le prix d'une biere 45. The madness of long-termism 46. Praying 47. A night on Pendle Hill 48. Joe's dream 49. The first years 50. Vision 51. The Burnley Protocol 52. A bond with nature 53. Making the bond 54. Blackburn 55. Therapy 56. Buying power 57. St Petersberg 58. One rule for the rich 59. The deal with Joe 60. The Englishman's home 61. Transport miracles 62. Shopping 63. Food 64. Endangered species 65. The essence 66. The choice 67. The last alternative 68. Happening now 69. The limits of reason 70. The prize 71. The note book Epilogue Notes.

Informations supplémentaires

GOR002663103
9781906860356
1906860351
Climate Change for Football Fans: A Matter of Life and Death James Atkins
Occasion - Très bon état
Broché
UIT Cambridge LTD
20101030
256
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