This Changes Everything (104 page)

New New Deal
(Grunwald),
124

New Orleans, La.,
4
,
9
,
53
,
105
,
407

New South Wales, anti-coal movement in,
300
–301,
376

New York,
N.Y.,
13
,
63
,
103
–6,
157

Bloomberg as mayor of,
235

disaster infrastructure in,
51

New Yorkers Against Fracking,
214

New York State:

anti-fracking ordinances in,
361
,
365

fracking in,
316
–17

fracking moratorium in,
348

renewable power plan for,
102

Superstorm Sandy in,
53
,
405

New York Times,
333
,
411

New York Times Magazine,
286

New Zealand,
163
,
182
,
290

Nexen,
246

Nez Perce,
319
,
370

Nicaragua,
348
n

Niger,
270

Niger Delta,
197
,
219

government repression of anti-oil movements in,
306
–7,
308
,
370

oil extraction in,
305
–9,
358

Nigeria,
219
,
305

carbon emissions of,
305

colonial heritage of,
370

political unrest in,
308
–9,
358

Nile River, volcanic eruptions and,
273

Nilsson, David,
220
–21

9/11,
6
,
63

Nixon, Richard,
125

Nixon, Rob,
276

Nompraseurt, Torm,
321

nonbinding agreements, at Copenhagen,
12
,
13
–14,
150

nongovernmental organizations (NGOs),
362

geoengineering and,
264
,
280

Norgaard, Kari,
462

Norse Energy Corporation USA,
365

North Africa,
274

North America,
182

emissions from,
40

program cuts in,
110

wealth in,
114

World War II rationing in,
115
–16

North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),
19
,
71
,
76
,
78
,
83
–85,
358
–59

North
Dakota, Bakken formation in,
71

Northern Cheyenne,
322
–23,
346
,
370
,
386
,
389
–93,
399

traditional values of,
391
–92

unemployment among,
391

Northern Cheyenne Reservation,
322
,
389
,
390
,
397
,
408

fire on,
396

solar heaters for,
393
–96

Northern Gateway pipeline,
312
,
362
,
381

campaign against,
302
,
337
–42,
344
–45,
365
–66,
367
,
380

cost of,
400

Joint Review Panel for,
337
–42,
363
,
365

North Texas, University of,
312

North Vancouver, Canada,
323

Norway,
99
,
130
,
179
,
198

Nova Scotia,
371

npower,
149

nuclear holocaust,
15

nuclear power,
57
,
58
,
97
,
118
,
131
,
199
,
202
,
205

Germany’s phasing out of,
97
,
136
–38

“next generation” technologies for,
137
n,
236

in the wake of Fukushima,
136

Obama, Barack,
12
,
227
,
392
,
412

“all of the above” energy policy of,
22
,
302
,
304
–5

environmental agenda of,
45
,
118
,
120
–21,
141
–42

and fossil fuel industry,
141

health care law of,
105
,
125
,
151
,
227

and Keystone XL,
140
–41,
403

responses to financial crisis by,
120
–26

support for biofuels by,
32

Occupy Sandy,
103
–5,
406

Occupy Wall Street,
103
,
153
,
206
,
464

Oceana,
330
–31

oceans,
175

acidification of,
165
,
259
,
434

dead zones in,
439

iron “fertilization” in,
257
,
258
,
268
,
279

see also
marine life

O’Connor, John,
327

Office of Price Administration,
115

offshore drilling,
22
,
80
,
144

deepwater,
2
,
142
,
300
,
310
,
324

lifting of limits on,
145

see also
Arctic drilling; BP, Deepwater Horizon disaster of

Ogallala Aquifer,
346

Ogoni, Ogoniland,
306
,
309
,
370

oil,
102
,
128
,
215

Oil Change International,
115

oil industry,
197

political and economic
power of,
316

public ownership of,
130

and drop in conventional production,
147

see also
extractive industries

Oil Sands Leadership Initiative (OSLI),
246

Ojo, Godwin Uyi,
306
,
309

Okanagan, land claims of,
368

O’Neill, Gerard,
288

One Million Climate Jobs,
127

Ontario,
56
,
382

feed-in tariffs in,
67
,
133

local content provision challenged in,
68
–70,
71
,
99
,
126

renewable energy sector
in,
66
–69

Oomittuk, Steve,
375

Operation Climate Change,
307
–8

opposition movements,
9
–10

see also
Blockadia; climate movement

Oregon,
319
,
320
,
349

Oreskes, Naomi,
42

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD),
114
–15

Orwell, George,
96

Osuoka, Isaac,
307
–8

Otter Creek, Mont.,
322
–23,
389
,
397

Our Hamburg—Our Grid coalition,
96
–97

oysters,
431
–32,
434

ozone depletion,
16

Pacala, Stephen,
113

Pacific Northwest:

ecological values of,
319
–20

proposed coal export terminals in,
320
,
322
,
346
,
349
,
370
,
374

Pacific Ocean, acidification of,
434

Paine, Tom,
314

Palin, Sarah,
1

palm oil plantations,
222

Papanikolaou, Marilyn,
361

Papua New Guinea,
200
,
220

Paradise Built in Hell
(Solnit),
62
–63

Paraná, Brazil,
221
,
222

Parenti, Christian,
49
,
186

Parfitt,
Ben,
129

Paris, public transit in,
109

Parkin, Scott,
296

Parr, Michael,
227

particulate pollution,
176

Passamaquoddy First Nation,
371
–72

Patel, Raj,
136

Patles, Suzanne,
381

Paulson, Henry,
49

Peabody Energy,
391

Pearl River Delta,
82

Pelosi, Nancy,
35

Pendleton, Oreg.,
319

Peninsula Hospital Center,
104

Penn State Earth System Science Center,
55

Pennsylvania:

fracking in,
357
n

Homeland Security Office of,
362

water pollution in,
328
–29

Pensacola, Fla.,
431

permafrost,
176

Peru,
78
,
220
–21

pest outbreaks,
14

Petrobras,
130

PetroChina,
130

Pew Center on Global Climate Change,
226

Pew Research Center for People & the Press,
35

Philippines,
107
,
109

Phillips, Wendell,
463

phosphate of lime,
163
–64,
166

photovoltaic manufacturing,
66

Pickens, T. Boone,
237
–38,
252

Pickens Plan,
237

Pierre River Mine,
379
–80,
383

Piketty, Thomas,
113
,
154
–55

Pinatubo eruption (1991),
258
–59

weather effects of,
259
,
270
,
271
–72,
274

Pinatubo Option,
258
,
259
–62,
274

famine and drought as consequences of,
270
,
279
,
287

solar power generation affected by,
259

termination problem in,
260

weather patterns affected by,
260
,
268
,
270
–71

Pine Ridge Reservation,
393
,
396

pipelines,
141
,
157
,
349
,
352
,
362
,
413
,
446

as common threat,
315
–16

Indigenous peoples and,
315
,
319
,
344
–45

public value of renewable energy projects vs.,
400

see also specific pipeline projects

Pittsburgh, Pa., rights of nature ordinance in,
444

place, love of, in Blockadia movement,
337
–66

planetary exodus,
288
–89

planned obsolescence,
91

planning, long-range,
see
long-range
planning

Point Carbon,
225

Point Hope, Alaska,
375

Poland,
75
,
144
,
200
,
225

polar bears,
435

Policy Implications of Greenhouse Warming,
282

Polis, Jared,
314

politicians, responsibility evaded by,
12
,
119

politics, elite control over,
18
,
119

polluter pays principle,
110
–19,
202
–3

pollution regulations,
39

polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs),
203
,
429

polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons
(PAHs),
426

Pooley, Eric,
207
,
208

Pope, Alexander,
446

Pope, Carl,
237
,
356
,
357
n

population,
14
,
114
n

populism,
117

postindustrialized nations,
79
,
132
,
177
,
387
,
460

poverty,
7
,
19
,
61
,
85
,
110
,
115
,
119
,
134
–36,
157
,
177
,
343
,
455
,
458

consumption and,
91

in developing world,
40
,
55
,
88
n,
179
–82,
409
,
416
,
418

extractive industries and,
181
–82,
416

lack of protection and,
49

renewable
energy and,
391
,
399

Powder River Basin, coal mines in,
320
,
323
,
343
–44,
395

power, corporate,
25

Power Past Coal,
349

power plants, coal-fired,
see
coal-fired power plants

precautionary principle,
335
–36

Premier Gold Mines,
382

Presidential Oil Spill Commission,
330

President’s Science Advisory Committee, climate change report of,
261

price controls,
125

PricewaterhouseCoopers,
15

Princeton Environmental Institute,
113

Princeton University, Carbon Mitigation Initiative of,
113
–14

Prince William Sound, impact of
Exxon Valdez
oil spill in,
337
–39,
426

privatization,
8
,
9
,
39
,
72