Orca Books, Saturday, April 14 2012 7:00 P.M. 509 E. 4th Ave, Olympia, WA 98501
Gar W. Lipow will talk about his new book “Solving the Climate Crisis
Through Social Change: Public Investment in Social Prosperity to Cool
a Fevered Planet ” Praeger Press(2012) by Gar W. Lipow
glipow@gmail.com
web url: http://SolvingTheClimateCrisis.com/ short url: http://stcc.be/

This accessible and easy-to-follow book shows that the climate crisis
is a side effect of inequality and injustice. It demonstrates how
strategies such as large-scale social investment will prove far more
effective in reducing greenhouse gas emissions than cap-and-trade or
other forms of free-market environmentalism.

“Solving the Climate Crisis through Social Change: Public Investment
in Social Prosperity to Cool a Fevered Planet” offers a new approach
to battling the climate crisis, arguing that the massive waste that
caused the current environmental crisis resulted not only from
fundamental structural flaws in markets, but also from social
inequality, lack of democracy, and a deeply flawed foreign policy.
Rather than a providing the typical doomsday perspective, it offers
realistic optimism about the expanding climate crisis, highlighting
the convergence between the necessary steps to save the planet and
what needs to be done to improve the lives of Americans.