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This textbook introduces and explains the issues around climate change and its mitigation. It includes topics across disciplines and can be used as a single-volume text by students studying a range of subjects. Among the topics included are: ·How to adopt significant mitigation measures now to avoid the most catastrophic long-term consequences of climate change. ·Reducing the rates of highly potent, short-lived emissions of methane gas and black carbon particulates—reductions that are necessary to meet the temperature targets of the Paris Agreements. ·Implementing wide-ranging adaptation measures to reduce the deaths and economic costs of extreme heat waves, droughts, wildfires, hurrica...
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Searching for the Good is a harrowing & very human examination of the myths & realities of war. Told through the author's personal journey, it also relates the story of that multitude of soldiers who served with honor in Vietnam, came home & went on with their lives in spite of much pain & torment. It's about youth & patriotism, pride & guilt & the horrors of ground combat. It's about returning, adjusting & never forgetting. It evokes the daily experience of life in the field & the rush of adrenaline in combat. It tracks the personal repercussions, positive & negative, on the lives of the survivors. For better or worse, was has shaped our country & it's citizens. It is an essential part of our outlook on life, our institutions & our policies & almost certainly our future. In this book the author--while capturing the universal experiences & feelings of the sixties generation--speaks out on behalf of the men & women who served in what some have said is "the only war America has ever lost." Many readers of this book have been both inspired & moved to tears by this "courageous account of a personal odyssey."