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climate debt of developed countries to,
387
,
388
–99,
408

pipelines and,
315
,
319
,
344
–45

pushed out of
own preserved land,
183
,
221
–23

socioeconomic disenfranchisement of,
384
–87,
391
–92

ways of life of,
370
–71;
see also
worldview, regenerative

see also
First Nations;
specific peoples

Indigenous peoples, land rights of,
7
,
26
,
182
,
365
–66,
367
–87,
418

anti-tar sands movement and,
322

Canadian Supreme Court upholding of,
368
,
371
–72

climate change and,
380
–84,
385

conflict with non-Natives
over,
371
–74

government and corporate opposition to,
369
–70,
381
–82

as impetus for uniting of Indigenous peoples and non-Natives,
373
–74,
380
–84

land-sharing provisions in,
372

lawsuits over,
368
,
371
–72,
378
–80,
384
,
386
,
451

as routinely ignored,
377
–78

Standard & Poor’s and,
367
–69,
383

trumped by socioeconomic power of extractive industries,
384
–87

individualism,
36
,
48
,
56
–57,
462

industrialized nations,
see
developed world

Industrial Revolution,
18
,
25
,
157
,
175
–76,
177
,
409

colonialism and,
171
,
175
,
457

slavery and,
415
–16

steam engine in,
171
–73

infertility, in humans:

environmental damage and,
424
–25,
428
–30

stress and,
437

infertility, in marine life:

BP spill and,
431
–33

climate change and,
433
–34

infrastructures:

energy-related,
23

investment in,
108
–9,
454

transportation,
85
,
124
,
127
,
318
–19,
342
,
370
;
see also
railways

urban,
51
,
122

Ingraffea, Anthony,
214

Inner Mongolia, anti-coal movement in,
300

Institute for Local Self-Reliance,
99
–100,
209

Institute for Marine Mammal Studies (IMMS),
432
–33

Institute for Policy Studies,
224

insurance,
234

disaster,
109
–10

profit motive and,
49
–51,
105

Intellectual Ventures,
262
,
264
,
289

Inter-American Court of Human Rights,
376

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC),
33
,
39
,
73
–74,
79
,
80
,
143
,
150
,
152

Interior Department, U.S.,
333
,
375
–76

International Development Department, U.K.,
87

International Energy Agency (IEA),
23
,
59
,
100
,
152

warming report of,
14
–15

World Energy Outlook report of,
147

International Labour Organization,
127

International Monetary
Fund (IMF),
81

austerity policies promoted by,
77

on carbon tax,
114

free-market ideology and,
62

international trade,
26
,
64
–73,
76
–77

climate protection and,
77

exporting of dirty production in,
79

see also
free trade agreements

Intervale,
404
–5

Inuit,
375

Inupiat,
375
–76

investment:

in extractive industries,
235
–37,
352

in infrastructures,
108
–9,
454

socially responsible,
402
–3

see also
divestment movement; green technology, investment in

in vitro fertilization (IVF),
421

Iran,
454

Irene, Hurricane,
108
,
404

Isaacs, Mark,
167

“Is Earth F**ked?” (Werner),
449
–50

Ishpingo oil field,
410

island states, low-lying,
12

Istanbul,
23
,
157

Italy,
65
,
154
,
225

Ithaca, N.Y.,
316
–17

Ithaca College,
317

Jackson, Tim,
93

Jackson, Wes,
438
,
439
–40,
446

Jacobin,
94

Jacobson,
Mark Z.,
101
,
102
,
137
,
214
–15

Jacques, Peter,
38

Jakarta,
223

James, Jewell Praying Wolf,
323

Japan,
68
,
69

Jawaharlal Nehru National Solar Mission,
65

Jevons, William Stanley,
29

job creation,
70
,
93
,
118
,
121
,
126
–28,
141
,
154
,
237
–38

Johnson, Lyndon B.,
73
,
261

Jonah Field,
215

Jones, Mary Harris “Mother,”
367

Jones, Van,
156

Jordan, John,
405

Jost, John T.,
57

Journal of Geophysical
Research,
270

JP Morgan,
215

Juhasz, Antonia,
111
–12

Kaczynski, Ted,
41
–42

Kahan, Dan,
36
–37,
56
–57

Kaiama, Nigeria,
307

Kaiama Declaration,
307
–8

Kakarapalli, India,
350

Kalamazoo River,
331
,
338

Karoo, South Africa,
347

Kartha, Sivan,
388
,
465

Kasser, Tim,
60

Katmai eruption (1912),
273
–74

Katrina, Hurricane,
4
,
9
,
47
n,
105
,
407
,
465

Kearl open-pit mine,
145
,
147

Keeter, Scott,
35

Keith, David,
247
,
254
,
263
,
268
,
269
,
275
,
280
,
281

Kennedy, Robert, Jr.,
356
n

Kenya,
109
,
202

Kernza,
440

Kerry, John,
34
,
225

Keynes, John Maynard,
178

Keynesianism,
38
,
75
,
125

growth and,
178

Keystone XL pipeline,
139
–41,
149
,
197
,
205
,
237
,
245
,
302
–3,
312

campaign against,
301
–3,
304
,
318
,
323
–24,
359
,
403

eminent domain laws and,
361

Indigenous land rights violated by,
375

landowner suits against,
313
,
361

Ogallala Aquifer route of,
346

Khor, Martin,
77

Kibale National Park,
222

Kilimanjaro Energy,
247

killifish, BP oil spill and,
432

Kinder Morgan,
217

King, Jeff,
395
,
396

King, Lucas,
397

King, Martin Luther, Jr.,
449
,
453

Kintisch, Eli,
263

Kitimat, Canada,
302

Kivalina,
112

Klare, Michael T.,
320

Klaus, Václav,
42
–43

Klein, Naomi (author):

ecological despair of,
419
–20

fertility crisis of,
420
–25,
427
,
436
–37,
441
–42

pregnancy and childbirth of,
419
,
440
,
448

Kliegerman, Stephen G.,
51

Knight, Alan,
246
,
252
–53

Koch, Charles and David,
44
,
45
,
227

Koch Industries,
44

Koenig, Kevin,
411

Koonin, Steven,
282

Krupp, Fred,
191
,
207
–8,
226
–29,
356
n

Kyoto Protocol,
69
,
76
,
77
,
79
,
150
,
165
,
218
–19

labor,
176
,
177

cheap,
81
–83

cooperative,
122
–23

in Industrial Revolution,
171

public sector,
157

labor movement,
see
trade unions

Laboucan-Massimo, Melina,
322

Labrador,
348

Lac-Mégantic, Canada, oil train disaster at,
311
–12,
332
,
333

LaDuke, Winona,
443

laissez-faire economics,
see
free-market ideology

Laki eruption (1783),
273

Lakota Nation,
375

Lame Deer, Mont.,
390
,
395

Lameman, Al,
378
–79

Lameman, Crystal,
379

Lamkin, John,
426

Lander, Edgardo,
363

land ethic,
184

Land Institute,
438
,
439
–40

land management,
91

land rights, of Indigenous peoples,
see
Indigenous peoples, land rights of

Lane, Lee,
282
–83

Lang, Chris,
223

Lasch, Christopher,
117

Latin
America:

colonial land grabs in,
414

overdependence on resource extraction in,
179
–82

Latour, Bruno,
278
–79

Laval, Canada,
313

La Via Campesina,
134

Lawson, Nigel,
42

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law,
314

Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) standards,
406

lead particulates,
203

Leard State Forest (Australia),
301

Lee, Marc,
112

left wing:

climate change
and,
63

extractivism and,
178
–82

political potential of climate change ignored by,
157

traditional institutions of,
158

legislation, environmental,
141
,
150
–51

Lehrer, Eli,
50
–51,
234

Leidreiter, Anna,
97

Leopold, Aldo,
184
–85

Levitt, Steven D.,
262
–63,
271
–72

Lewis, Wayne,
64

Liberal Party (Canadian),
36

liberals, climate change and,
61
–62,
156

Li Bo,
351
,
352

Liepert, Ron,
312

lifestyle changes,
4
,
17
–18,
91

Lifton, Robert Jay,
57

Limits to Growth
(Club of Rome),
185
–86,
207

Lipow, Gar,
113

liquid nature,
223
–24

Little Red,
242

Liverpool,
172

Living in Denial
(Norgaard),
462

LNG (liquefied natural gas),
376

local hiring,
92

local power,
96

local production,
7
,
68
–70,
71
,
76
,
85
–86

of food,
90
,
134
–35,
222
,
404
–5

London,
13
,
148
,
172

Lone Pine Resources,
358
–59

long-haul transportation,
83
,
84
,
85

long-range planning,
95
,
124
–26

and jobs,
126
–28

for power,
128
–36

Longueuil, Canada,
313

Los Angeles, Calif.,
13

Los Angeles Times,
272
,
300

Losing Ground
(Dowie),
84
,
203

Louisiana,
330
,
431

Love Canal Homeowners Association,
206

Lovell, Evan,
239
,
240

Lovelock, James,
231

love of place, in Blockadia movement,
337
–66

low-carbon economy,
16
,
21
,
91
,
93

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