Climate Action ― A Campaign Manual for Greenhouse Solutions

`Can we beat climate change? Mark Diesendorf thinks we must and can, and lays out what individuals and groups of activisits can do, often in the face of resistance from those who try to deny the urgency and defend the status quo.'

`Distilling his knowledge and experience, Mark Diesendorf cogently presents practical steps for engaging effectively with climate change politics.'

In the USA, social movements succeeded in stopping 59 proposals to build new conventional coal-fired power stations. In the UK, there is a continuing campaign to stop the expansion of Heathrow airport, mostly on the grounds of the greenhouse gas emissions from increased flights.

Responding to this global flowering of commitment, Climate Action is a campaign manual that draws upon positive case studies of successful grass-roots social movements. It presents a menu of strategies for activists and citizens who want to pressure governments and businesses to create a framework for big and rapid reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.

Social movements have nonviolently overthrown dictatorships, achieved votes for women and abolished slavery. This book will empower citizens to build the climate action movement into an irresistible global force that just might save our planet.

Mark Diesendorf is deputy director of the Institute of Environmental Studies at the University of New South Wales. He is a former president of the original Australasian Wind Energy Association, coordinator of the Australian Conservation Foundation’s Climate Change Program, and president of the Australia New Zealand Society for Ecological Economics. He is the author of Greenhouse Solutions with Sustainable Energy.