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True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Eleventh-Hour Fight to Save the Earth
Hyperion Books
June 2010
On Sale: June 8, 2010
496 pages
ISBN: 140132326X
EAN: 9781401323264
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In The Climate War, Eric Pooley—deputy
editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek—does for global
warming what Bob Woodward did for presidents and Lawrence
Wright did for terrorists. In this epic tale of an American
civil war, Pooley takes us behind the scenes and into the
hearts and minds of the most important players in the
struggle to cap global warming pollution—a fight in which
trillions of dollars and the fate of the planet are at
stake. Why has it been so hard for America to come to
grips with climate change? Why do so many people believe it
isn't really happening? As President Obama's science advisor
John Holdren has said, "We're driving in a car with bad
brakes in a fog and heading for a cliff. We know for sure
that cliff is out there. We just don't know exactly where it
is. Prudence would suggest that we should start putting on
the brakes." But powerful interests are threatened by the
carbon cap that would speed the transition to a clean energy
economy, and their agents have worked successfully to deny
the problem and delay the solutions. To write this
book, Pooley, the former managing editor of Fortune
and chief political correspondent for Time, spent
three years embedded with an extraordinary cast of
characters: from the flamboyant head of one of the nation's
largest coal-burning energy companies to the driven
environmental leader who made common cause with him, from
leading scientists warning of impending catastrophe to
professional skeptics disputing almost every aspect of
climate science, from radical activists chaining themselves
to bulldozers to powerful lobbyists, media gurus, and
advisors in Obama's West Wing—and, to top it off,
unprecedented access to former Vice President Al Gore and
his team of climate activists. Pooley captures the
quiet determination and even heroism of climate campaigners
who have dedicated their lives to an uphill battle that's
still raging today. He asks whether we have what it takes to
preserve our planet's habitability, and shows how America's
climate war sends shock waves from Bali to Copenhagen. No
other reporter enjoys such access to this cast of
characters. No other book covers this terrain. From
the trenches of a North Carolina power plant to the
battlefields of Capitol Hill, Madison Avenue, and Wall
Street, The Climate War is the essential read for
anyone who wants to understand the players and politics
behind the most important issue we face today.
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