Horsemen of the Apocalypse: The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (952 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B073JPXLJ9 |
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| Number of Pages | : | 143 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-25 |
| Language | : | English |
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Absolute Required Reading ! Peter Janney I cannot say enough about how important this book is Brilliantly put together by Dick Russell; Forward by David Talbot; Introduction by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. If you read only one book about what is taking place in America today, as well as the planetary environmental crisis, this should be your choice. I can almost promise you that you won't regret it, but it will likely upset you, AND IT SHOULD !. Russell is a fabulous writer (also enjoyed reading his book Striper Wars and many articles) Brendan Demelle This is a must-read for those concerned about climate change and holding polluters accountable for delaying political action to address this global security threat. Russell is a fabulous writer (also enjoyed reading his book Striper Wars and many articles), and he convincingly indicts these fossil fuel barons for their ongoing crimes against humanity. You'll walk away understanding in a lot more depth the need to get off fossil fuels now, and a sense of outrage that these characters walk freely. Chapter 7 on Peabody's war . JAR said Death by the Fossil Fuel Oligarchy or Life. The global warming Armageddon may now be too late to stop. But we sure shouldn't be expediting its coming for the benefit of a few sadistic cash gluttons at the expense of everyone and everything else on earth. And even perhaps the demise of these irrational sociopaths themselves if they live long enough but certainly the demise of their eventual progeny depending on the speed of the ensuing carnage. Or perhaps the natural world will exist but become an aesthetically degraded dystopian nightmare that no sentient person wou
Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis. How do they explain themselves to their offspring, to the next generations that must deal with the environmental havoc that these men have wreaked? Horsemen of the Apocalypse takes a personal look at