Eco-hustle! : Global warming, greenwashing, and sustainability

Johansen, Bruce E. (Bruce Elliott) 1950- (Author).

Summary: This book brings questions about legislation and economics to the forefront and asks whether today's system can support a true effort at sustainable living. It presents honest - and what some readers may find surprising - answers to inquiries into what is really "good for the environment," such as why corn ethanol may be worse for the atmosphere than oil and why coal capture and sequestration may be the worst "green" idea yet.

Record details

ISBN: 9781440832512 (cloth : alk. paper)
Physical Description: print
xii, 268 p. ; 25 cm.
Publisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2015.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Introduction -- I. Problems - 1. Why so urgent? thermal inertia, feedbacks, and tomorrow's news - 2. Raining on the corn-ethanol parade - 3. Cap and hustle and other eco-scams: making a buck while the earth burns - 4. "Clean coal," and other oxymoronic orwellianisms - 5. Carbon capture and sequestration: a bad idea whose time has come---and gone - 6. Geo-engineering: sulfur as savior? - 7. Greening the Pentagon? The Carbon Footprint of War - 8. Degrees of Denial: The Contrarians' Alternative Universe -- II. Solutions - 9. Accounting, insurance, and taxation as if it really matters - 10. Genuine greening in the corporate world -- Conclusion: Can the system solve the problem? -- Selected bibliography -- Index.