Down to the wire : confronting climate collapse / David - Index of

258 S index
politics (continued)
climate destabilization response of,
2, 4–7
communication substance and style
in, 99–100
Congressional, executive power
and, 222n4
corporations infl uencing, 225n31
Democrats in, 68, 75
Enlightenment infl uencing, 205
money in, 104
presidential commission for
changes in, 207–9
reform of, 177–78
Republicans in, 67–68, 75, 127–28,
130–31
transformation of, 205
population size, 26, 157
Porritt, Jonathon, 36–37
positive feedbacks, 20
Posner, Richard, 69–70
post-carbon prosperity, 212, 214
posterity
in Constitution, 72
defenders of, 75
protection of, 68, 71–76
Postman, Neil, 171
post–World War II world, 193, 196
Potter, David, 71
powerdown, 24
president
as educator-in-chief, 211
executive power of, 15–16, 94–95,
222n4
Presidential Climate Action Project,
206
presidential commission, for
governance, politics, and law
changes, 207–9
press. See also media
freedom of, 61, 190
Iraq invasion and, 61, 225n8
Primack, Joel, 145
procrastination penalty, 19
productive capital, 59
progress trap, 148
property law, 44–48
psychology
codes of conduct and, 170–71
limitations of, 167–68
public airwaves, 100, 178, 210
public awareness
of climate destabilization, 5, 9,
100
gradualism in, 187–88
happy news and, 185–86
leadership and, 189–90
level of, 21
panic and, 187
responsibility of, 7
shared national agenda and, 71
technical knowledge needed for,
192
public order
governance and, 39–42
testing of, 54
Rabe, John, 169
radical hope, 173
radio, 62–63
Rawls, John, 145
Reagan, Ronald, 108, 131
realism
of change’s scale and pace,
198–99
diluted, 186, 188
idealism v., 196
neoconservative, 199
reciprocity, 150
Rees, Martin, 1
Refl ections on the Causes of Human
Misery (Moore), 162
refugees, climate, xi, 19–20, 32
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,
188
religion. See also Christianity