Gathering Storm: Fighting Back

By Clive Hamilton

China is winning a war most Americans don't know they're fighting. While Washington wrangles over climate policy, Beijing has seized control of the clean energy industries that will power the 21st century--and the critical minerals needed for every solar panel and every F-35 and Tomahawk missile. For Beijing, this is not environmentalism; it's geopolitics.

Gathering Storm makes the case--grounded in national security, economic self-interest, and hard data--that America's retreat from this contest is a strategic blunder. Back home, billion-dollar weather disasters have more than doubled in recent years, insurance companies are fleeing high-risk markets, and working Americans who did everything right are finding themselves unprotected. Extreme weather is already hammering farm country, small towns, and Republican-leaning states hardest. Nine of the ten states facing the worst climate impacts lean red.

Some American leaders say 'relax, it's not happening, ' while China is investing massively in diverting water to arid zones, building seawalls, stockpiling food, and flood-proofing cities. Beijing is taking control of world energy supply and preparing its society for a climate-disrupted world--and framing it explicitly as national security strategy.

This is a book for Americans who put country before politics, conservatives as well as liberals. The contest is not over. But the clock is ticking.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1509577025
• ISBN13: 9781509577026
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Polity Press
• Length: 150 Pages