This Changes Everything (107 page)

Tuvalu,
13

2 degrees Celsius boundary,
87
–88,
89
,
150
,
354
,
456

Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research,
13
,
21
,
56
,
86
–87,
214
,
283

typhoons,
107
,
175
,
406
,
465

Uganda,
222

ultra-deepwater “subsalt” drilling,
145

Undesirables
(Isaacs),
167

unemployment,
180

unemployment insurance,
454

Unified Campesino Movement of Aguán,
222

Union of Concerned Scientists,
201

Clean Vehicles Program at,
237

United Kingdom,
13
,
149
,
170
,
224
,
225

compensation of slave-owners in,
415
–16,
457

“dash for cash” in,
299

divestment movement in,
354

flooding in,
7
,
54
,
106
–7

fracking in,
299
–300,
313

Industrial Revolution in,
172
–73,
410

negatives of privatization in,
128

politics of climate change in,
36
,
150

supports for renewable energy cut in,
110

Thatcher government of,
39

World War II rationing in,
115
–16

United Nations,
7
,
18
,
64
,
87
,
114

Bloomberg as special envoy for cities and climate change
of,
236

Clean Development Mechanism (CDM),
219
–20,
224
,
226

climate governance and,
280

climate summits of,
5
,
11
,
65
,
150
,
165
,
200
;
see also specific summits

Department of Economic and Social Affairs,
110

Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,
see
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)

international agreements and,
17

Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food,
135

United
Nations Conference on the Human Environment of 1972,
202

United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples,
377
,
383

United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean,
180

United Nations Environmental Modification Convention,
278

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP),
272

United Nations Framework on Climate Change,
200
,
410

United Nations Framework
Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC),
76
,
77
,
78
–79

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees,
167

United Nations Rio Declaration on Environment and Development (1992),
55
,
293

United Policyholders,
109

United States,
19
,
67
,
68
,
143

carbon emissions from,
409

coal exports from,
320
,
322
,
346
,
349
,
374
,
376

Copenhagen agreement signed by,
12
,
150

energy privatization reversals in,
98

environmental legislation in,
201
–2

failure of climate legislation in,
226
–27

Kyoto Protocol and,
218
–19,
225
–26

oil and gas export restrictions in,
71

opposition movement in,
9

solar energy market in,
72

WTO challenges brought against,
65

WTO challenges brought by,
64
–65,
68

United States Climate Action Partnership (USCAP),
226
–28

University College London,
415
–16

uranium,
176

urban
planning, green,
16

urban sprawl,
90
,
91

US Airways,
1
–2

U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
227

utilities, alternative models for,
130
–33

U’wa,
376
–77

Vagt, Robert F.,
217

van Beurden, Ben,
358
,
376

Vancouver, Canada,
13

Var, France,
317
–18

Vassiliou, Anni,
347

vegetation, carbon and,
14

Venezuela,
179
–80

Venkataraman, R.,
75

venture capitalists,
252

Vermont:

anti-fracking movement in,
348

local agriculture in,
404
–5

Vernon, Caitlyn,
365

victory gardens,
16
,
17

Vidal, John,
244

Vietnam War,
261

Virgin Earth Challenge,
257
,
284
–85

Virgin Green Fund,
238
,
239
,
253

Virgin Group,
230
,
237

Virgin Airlines,
231
,
238
,
241
–44,
249
–52

Virgin Fuels,
238

Virgin Racing,
243

Virgin Trains,
231
,
238
,
252
–53

Viteri, Franco,
388

volcanic eruptions:

droughts and,
272
–73

global impact
of,
274

weather patterns and,
259
,
270
,
271
–74

Volney, Constantin-François,
273

Vonnegut, Kurt,
286
,
287

Vowel, Chelsea,
371

Voynet, Dominique,
218

wage controls,
125

Wallach, Lori,
359
–60

Wall Street,
206
,
208

in financial crisis of 2008,
9
,
44

Wall Street Journal,
207
,
312

Walmart,
196
,
208
–10

Walton, Sam,
209

Walton, Sam Rawlings,
209

Walton Family Foundation,
209

Wang Wenlin,
300

Wania, Frank,
328
n

Ward, Barbara,
286

Warsaw climate change summit (2013),
200
–201,
276

Washington, D.C.:

Keystone XL protest in,
139
,
301
–2

record temperatures in,
73

Washington Consensus,
81

Washington State,
319

Indigenous land rights in,
323
,
374
–75,
380
–81

proposed coal export terminals in,
320
,
322
,
346
,
349
,
374
,
380
–81

Washington, Tracie,
419

water:

disruption to supplies of,
14
,
165

First Nations and,
384

privatization of,
133

as public utility,
7

water pollution:

extractive industry and,
83
,
94
,
295
,
296
,
332
,
344
–47

from fracking,
328
–29,
332
,
344
,
346

water power,
16
,
101
,
215

of factories,
171

steam engine vs.,
171
–72

Waters, Donny,
431
,
432

Watt, James,
171
–75,
204
,
266
,
394
,
410

Waxman-Markey,
227

wealth:

concentration of,
154
,
155

decentralization
of,
131

greenhouse gas emissions and,
113
–14

inequality of,
123
,
454
–55

redistribution of,
40
,
42
,
453

transfers of,
5

Wealth of Nations
(Smith),
173
,
462

weapons, climate change and,
9

weather, extreme,
35
,
102
–10

weather futures,
8
–9

weatherization,
93

weather patterns:

global warming and,
269

historical record of,
271
–76

Pinatubo eruption and,
259
,
270
,
271
–72,
274

variations
in,
269

weather patterns, intentional modification of:

as weapon,
261
,
278

see also
Pinatubo Option; Solar Radiation Management

Weintrobe, Sally,
12

Werner, Brad,
449
–50,
451
,
460

West Antarctic ice sheet,
13
,
14
,
15

West Burton, England,
300

Western Australia,
376

West, Thomas,
365

West Virginia,
332
,
357
n,
367

wetlands, extractive industry damage to,
425
–26

Weyerhaeuser,
369

Where
Do We Go from Here
(King),
453

Whitehead, Andrew,
432

Whitehorn, Will,
230
–31

Whitehouse, Mark,
428

Whiteman, Phillip, Jr.,
386

Whole Earth Catalogue,
288

WikiLeaks,
78
,
165

wilderness system, federal,
203

wildfires,
14
,
52
,
108
,
446

Wildlife Conservation Society,
221
–22

Wildlife Society,
192

Willemse, Oom Johannes,
347

Willett Advisors,
216
,
235

Williams, Eric,
415

Willis, Rebecca,
90

wind farms,
110
,
223
,
287

“Window for Thermal Coal Investment Is Closing” (Goldman Sachs),
352

wind power,
16
,
67
,
70
,
97
,
102
,
118
,
122
,
124
,
127
,
131
–32,
147
,
215
,
237

in combined-cycle plant,
129

fracking’s negative impact on,
129
,
144
n

large offshore,
131

manufacturers in,
68

private sector and,
100
–101

Wood, Lowell,
268
n,
271
,
280
,
288

Woolsey, R. James,
53

Woolworth,
16

workers,
see
labor; trade unions

in Industrial Revolution,
171

public sector,
157

work hours, shorter,
93
–94

World Academy of Sciences,
257

World Bank,
47
–48,
59
,
81
,
152
,
180
,
219
,
359

austerity promoted by,
77

on carbon tax,
114

free market ideology and,
62

new coal projects opposed by,
348
–49

on 2 degrees Celsius limit,
12
–13

World Conference Against Racism (2001),
414

World Conference on
the Changing Atmosphere,
55
,
73
–74

World Economic Forum,
112

World Future Council,
97

World Health Organization,
351

world markets, liberation of,
20
–21

World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth,
444
n

World Resources Institute,
196
,
226

World Trade Organization (WTO),
5
,
16
,
19
,
39
,
76
,
77
,
80
,
84

green energy programs challenged by,
64
–65,
68
–73,
126

worldview:

communitarian,
36
,
59
,
182
,
460
,
461
,
462
,
466

dominance-based,
36
–37,
41
,
44
,
56
–57,
59
–60,
75
,
177
,
184
,
186
,
424
,
462

extractivist,
see
extractivism

regenerative,
23
,
25
,
60
–61,
182
,
395
,
396
,
424
,
442
–48

World War I, collective sacrifice in,
16
,
115

World War II:

collective sacrifice in,
16
–17,
115
–16

social programs in wake of,
10

World Wildlife Fund,
84
,
196
,
264