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Steve Vanderheiden, ed., Political Theory and Global Climate Change The MIT Press, 2008

George Gonzalez, Urban Sprawl, Global Warming, and the Empire of Capital SUNY Press, 2009

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Urban sprawl results in more fossil fuel consumption, which accelerates climate change. George Gonzalez has investigated US elites' role in spurring suburbanization and harming the planet. And Larry Bogad uses political pranks and street theater to highlight official inaction on, among other things, global warming.

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Mike Davis, "Can Obama See the Grand Canyon? On Presidential Blindness and Economic Catastrophe" TomDispatch

Mike Davis, "Living On the Ice Shelf: Humanity's Meltdown" TomDispatch

Will the current economic meltdown, and worker reaction to it, be a reenactment of the Great Depression? Could the politics of racist resentment on the US-Mexico border explode into (more) violence? Are global elites truly motivated to combat climate change? Mike Davis, author of In Praise of Barbarians, tackles these and other issues.

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Colin Duncan, The Practical Equivalent of War? Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics

Colin Duncan, The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996

Twentieth century civilization is about to collapse, argues Colin Duncan, because of the imminence of rapid and vast climate change. The environmental historian believes a mass collective project must arise to plan a necessary transition to a new sustainable society. Also, Simon Dyer of the Pembina Institute describes oil exploration and extraction in Alberta's tar sands.

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Colin Duncan, The Practical Equivalent of War? Berkeley Workshop on Environmental Politics

Colin Duncan, The Centrality of Agriculture: Between Humankind and the Rest of Nature McGill-Queen's University Press, 1996

Twentieth century civilization is about to collapse, argues Colin Duncan, because of the imminence of rapid and vast climate change. The environmental historian laments the decades-long delay in grasping the urgency and magnitude of what he calls the global defrosting crisis. Duncan believes a mass collective project must arise to plan a necessary transition to a new sustainable society.