This Changes Everything (105 page)

diminished services under,
128

of disaster response,
51
–52

of former Soviet economies,
19

and infrastructure investments,
108
–9

as license to steal,
154

of public sphere,
19
–20

reversals
of,
39
,
95
,
96
–103

Prize, The
(Yergin),
311

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences,
79
,
217
,
328
n

“proof of harmlessness,”
271
,
272

propane,
328

Prosperity Without Growth
(Jackson),
93

protectionism,
64
–65,
84

Public Accountability Initiative,
216

Public Citizen,
80
,
213

Global Trade Watch of,
359
–60

public health systems,
10
,
109

public infrastructure,
19
,
20

public sector,
95

crumbling institutions,
158

green energy and,
97
–103,
406
–7

and infrastructure investments,
108
–9

spending cuts in,
19
,
72
,
110

public services, zero-carbon,
19
–20

public transit,
7
,
40
,
92
,
93
,
108
,
121
,
124
,
126
,
127

in Brazil,
157

cheap,
91

in France,
109

in wartime,
16
–17

public works,
39

Pungesti, Romania, anti-fracking movement in,
298
–99,
303
,
347
,
404

quantitative easing,
110

Quebec:

anti-fracking movement in,
303
–4,
313
,
348
,
358
–59

fracking moratorium in,
71

opposition movements in,
9
,
464

Queensland,
27
,
301

racism:

environmental,
205
,
429

sacrifice zones and,
310
–11,
314

railways,
91
,
108
,
122
,
133

coal transport by,
234
,
362
,
389
,
397

high-speed,
126

oil transport by,
311
–12,
325
,
332
,
333

Rainforest Action Network,
197
,
296
,
356

“Rainforest
Chernobyl,”
309
,
378

Rakotomanga, Cressant,
221
–22

Rand, Ayn,
44

Rasch, Phil,
264

rationing, wartime,
115
–16

Raytheon,
9

Read, Joe,
53
n

Reagan, Ronald,
39
,
117
,
203
–5,
229

real estate:

disaster infrastructure and,
51

in wake of Superstorm Sandy,
9
,
235
n

re-communalization,
96
–103

Red Cloud, Henry,
24
,
393
–97

Red Cloud Renewable Energy Center,
396

REDD-Monitor,
223

RedGE,
78

Red
Hook, Brooklyn,
105
n,
405

Reilly, John,
11

reinsurance,
9
,
234

religion, and dominion over nature,
41
,
74
,
177

re-municipalization,
96
–103

renewable energy,
16
,
18
,
67
,
90
,
93
,
127
,
131
,
218
,
253
,
283

Asia and,
349
–50

buy-local programs for,
77

cheap natural gas as undercutting,
128
–29

community ownership of,
398
–99

Gates’ dismissal of,
236
–37

in Germany,
97
–98,
130
–31

incentives for,
138
–39

investment in,
see
green technology, investment in

major oil companies and,
111
–12

maturing technology for,
213
–14

misleading cautions on,
199
–200,
394
–95

noncorporate providers of,
131

100 percent,
101
,
102
,
137
,
214
–15

private sector and,
100
–101

public ownership and,
97
–103

public sector and,
97
–103,
406
–7

public value of, extractive projects vs.,
400

in Spain,
110

transition
to,
89
,
97
–103,
115
,
214
–15,
364

and variability of natural systems,
394
–95

as viable alternative to fossil fuels,
349
,
398
,
399
,
400
–401,
403
,
413
–18

WTO’s slowing of,
71
–72

reparations,
414
–15

see also
climate debt

REPOWERBalcombe,
403
–4

Republican party,
35
,
118
,
125
,
141
,
204

climate change denial and,
34
,
36
,
46
,
407

Republic Windows and Doors,
123
n

resilience,
419
,
442

Resisting
Environmental Destruction on Indigenous Lands (REDOIL),
375
–76

resources, depletion of,
450

Responsible Endowments Coalition,
401

Reyes, Oscar,
224

Richmond, Calif.,
321
,
402

right wing:

as barrier to progress,
31
–63,
75
,
124

on climate change as left-wing plot,
31
,
32
,
156
,
411

Rignot, Eric,
14

Rio Earth Summit of 1992,
55
,
76
,
77
,
83
,
85
,
150
,
200
,
293
,
363

Risky Business project,
49

Roberts, David,
364
–65

Robertsbridge Group,
249
n

Robertson, Julian,
208

Robock, Alan,
264
,
270
,
273
–74

Rockaways,
103
–6

Rodríguez, Heriberto,
222

Rogers, Jim,
196

Romania:

fracking in,
298
–99,
303
,
344

government repression of environmental protest in,
298
–99,
303

Romm, Joe,
54

Roosevelt, Franklin Delano,
121

Roosevelt, Theodore,
211

Rosebud Sioux,
375

Rothschild, Richard,
31
,
34

rotifers, BP oil spill and,
432

Rousseff, Dilma,
179

Rowe, Stan,
444

Royal Canadian Mounted Police,
299

Royal Society,
152
,
266

Chicheley Hall geoengineering conference of,
256
–61,
263
–67,
280
–81,
284
–85,
451

royalties, on oil, gas, and coal extraction,
112
–13

Roy, Arundhati,
291

Ruffalo, Mark,
317

Russia:

Greenpeace activists arrested by,
300

oil and gas companies in,
178
–79

see also
Soviet Union

Sacramento, Calif.,
99

sacrifice zones,
172
–73,
310
–15

Safe Drinking Water Act,
328

Safety and Environmental Enforcement Bureau, U.S.,
332

Sahel,
270
,
274
,
275
–76

Sainsbury,
116

St. Lawrence River,
359

Salina, Kans.,
438

salmon,
338
–39,
345
,
375
,
440
–41,
448

Salvation Army,
167

Sami,
375

San Andrés, Providencia, and Santa Catalina province, Colombia,
348

Sancton, Thomas,
74

Sand County Almanac
(Leopold),
184

Sandy, Superstorm,
3
–4,
9
,
51
,
103
–8,
175
,
405
,
406
,
446
,
465

Koch attempt to block federal aid for,
53

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.,
358

San Francisco, Calif.,
354

Santa Barbara oil spill of 1969,
201

Santorum, Rick,
312

Sarnia, Canada,
428

Saro-Wiwa, Ken,
306
,
307
,
309

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
176

Sauven, John,
376

Save the Fraser Declaration,
344
–45,
365

Savitz, Jackie,
330
–31

Sawyer, Diane,
391

Scaife, Richard Mellon,
45

scallops,
434

Schapiro, Mark,
222

Schmitt, Harrison,
32
,
286
n

Schwacke, Lori,
433

science, climate,
46
,
59
,
127
,
152
,
158

Science,
329

Science Advisory Committee,
73

Scientific Revolution,
170
,
177
,
266

Scott, Mike,
381
,
389
–90,
445

sea levels,
13
,
270

sea star wasting syndrome,
27
–28

Seattle, Wash.,
354

sea turtles,
434

seawalls,
10

SEC,
148

Senate, U.S.,
227

Senegal,
270

Sering, Mary Ann Lucille,
276

Shah, Jigar,
199
,
239

shale, fracking of,
142
–43,
144
,
147
,
214

shale gas,
298
–99,
346
,
357
n

water supply contamination from,
328
–29

shale oil,
311
,
346
,
357
n

Shanghai, China,
13
,
351

shareholders,
111
,
112
,
128
,
129
,
146
–47,
148
,
150
,
252

Sheeran, Kristen,
401
,
402

Shell,
111
,
226
,
238
,
246

Arctic drilling operations of,
332
,
333
,
358
,
375
–76

diminished profits of,
358

fracking operations of,
347

green groups funding and,
196
,
198
,
217
,
229

Niger Delta oil operations of,
306
–7,
358

offshore drilling by,
145
–46

Pierre River Mine project of,
379
–80,
383

reserve-replacement ratio of,
147

Shelley, Mary,
278

shipping industry,
113

emissions from,
76
,
79

Shiva, Vandana,
284

shock doctrine,
8
–10

geoengineering as,
276
–78

Shock Doctrine
(Klein),
8
,
10

shrimp, BP spill and,
431

Shrybman, Steven,
72
,
77
–78

Sierra Club,
10
,
84
,
86
,
156
,
183
,
197
,
211
,
235
–36,
237
,
325
,
356
–57,
381
,
389
–90

“Beyond Coal” campaign of,
349
,
397

divestment movement and,
357

International Climate Program of,
352

Sierra Club BC,
365

Silent Spring
(Carson),
185
,
201

Silfab Ontario,
65
–66,
68
–69,
122
,
126

Silfab SpA,
66
,
68
–69

Simon, Gary,
374

Simpson, Leanne,
442
–43

Sinclair, Scott,
70

Sinclair, Upton,
46

Singer, S. Fred,
42

Sinner, George,
312

Sitkalidak Island,
332

sixties-era dropouts,
403
,
404

Skates, Chris,
53
n