Introduction

A generation ago, the officers and owners of America’s corporations, fed up with democracy, decided to quietly seize control of one of the nation’s political parties the Republican Party and, with it, America. It worked. Enriched by corporate money they GOP used deft appeals to racism, bigotry and other “values” to establish virtually complete Republican dominion. The consequences are everywhere. The nation has no universal health insurance because insurance companies, corporate employers, hospitals, doctors and insurance companies do not wish it. Electricity rates have soared because corporations wanted the profits that a so-called “free market” could provide. Pension and health benefits of people who retired decades ago have been slashed to maintain or increase shareholder profits.

Yet nowhere is the imprint of corporations and the rich clearer, or the peril greater, than with global warming. The planet is racing toward a “tipping point,” a slight change that triggers a massive, violent and irreversible shift: think avalanche, lightning, volcanic explosion or the Twin Towers, standing, standing, standing, then in seconds collapsing on themselves.

 

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Saving Ourselves is divided into four parts, as follows:

Part I: The Science of Global Warming and Needless Death and Illness.

• Introduction
• Positive Feedbacks and “Tipping Points” (Think Twin Towers)
• First Things First
• Smog: The Eager Destroyer
• Death by Dust
• Save Ourselves? Yes, We Can

Part II: The Technologies and Other Measures That Could Save Us.

• Biomass Appendix
• Zero Pollution, Just A Telephone Call Away
• Out of Sight, On the High Seas
• Zero to Sixty With Zero Pollution
• Breathe Easier Now, Not Later
• Reducing Industrial Pollution
• Self Help

Part III: The Three Pillars of the Modern Republican Party.

• He’s Uppity
• Racism II Appendix
• Bloodless Coup
• Taking Control
• Tearing Down
• Milking the Cash Cow

Part IV: The Tools Employed by the Modern Republican Party.

• Simon Says
• Echo Chamber
• Revolutionary Justice
• Killing Kyoto
• Ten Long Years
• Short Takes

 

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