Fast Forward: Ethics and Politics in the Age of Global Warming

by William Antholis and Strobe Talbott

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""Those of us alive today are the first generation to know that we live in the Age of Global Warming. We may also be the last generation to have any chance of doing something about it. Our forebears had the excuse of ignorance. Our descendants will have the excuse of helplessness. We have no excuse.""--From Chapter One

Fast Forward is equal parts science primer, history lesson, policy prescription, and ethical treatise. This pithy...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815704690
• ISBN13: 9780815704690
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.9"