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diff --git a/bibliography.bib b/bibliography.bib index 5ecfec5..40d65ba 100644 --- a/bibliography.bib +++ b/bibliography.bib @@ -1,3 +1,60 @@ +@report{living-planet, + title={Living Planet Report 2024}, + date={2024}, + author={{WWF}}, + subtitle={A System In Peril}, + address={Gland}, + publisher={{WWF}}, +} + +@misc{noaa-co2, + title={Trends in globally-averaged CO2 determined from NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory measurements}, + author={Lan, X. and Tans, P. and Thoning, K. W.}, + urldate={2026-07-25}, + doi={10.15138/9N0H-ZH07} + date={2026-07-06}, +} + +@misc{unfao-fish-stocks, + title={SDG Indicators}, + author={{Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations}}, + note={14.4.1, Proportion of fish stocks within biologically sustainable levels}, + date={2026}, + url={https://www.fao.org/faostat/en/#data/SDGB}, + urldate={2026-07-25}, +} + +@report{breaking-plastic-wave, + author={{Pew Charitable Trusts} and {SYSTEMIQ}}, + title={Breaking the Wave}, + subtitle={A Comprehensive Assessment of Pathways Towards Stopping Ocean Plastic Pollution}, + date={2020}, +} + +@report{energy-inst-2025, + author={{Energy Institute}}, + title={Statistical Review of World Energy}, + date={2025}, +} + +@book{smil-2017, + author={Smil, Vaclav}, + publisher={Praeger}, + title={Energy Transitions}, + subtitle={Global and National Perspectives}, + date={2017}, + address={Santa Barbara}, +} + +@misc{owid-fossil-fuels, + title={Fossil Fuels}, + author={{Our World In Data}}, + note={Statistical Review of World Energy, Energy Institute (2025), Smil (2017) with major processing from Our World In Data}, + date={2022-10}, + urldate={2026-07-25}, + url={https://ourworldindata.org/fossil-fuels}, +} + @book{working-class-env, author={Bell, Karen}, title={Working-Class Environmentalism}, diff --git a/chapter1.md b/chapter1.md index 9a8aab8..b27667b 100644 --- a/chapter1.md +++ b/chapter1.md @@ -8,16 +8,18 @@ reserves, in the last thirty years, most of the key social-scale demands of the green movement have not been met, and even some of those earlier successes have been partially rolled back. -- Tropical deforestation is accelerating -- Plastic pollution is increasing at an accelerating rate -- Public infrastructure is more, not less, car-dependent -- Overfishing is intensifying -- Green New Deal is nowhere to be seen -- Water pollution has gone backwards (in the UK at least) -- Energy transition shows few signs of starting (though consider obvious - objections: falling coal consumption in China, increasing renewable energy - production, car electrification) -- Greenhouse gas emissions are increasing at an accelerating rate +Human beings have burned more coal since 1987 than they did from 1800 until +1987, and more oil and gas since the Kyoto Protocol was signed in 1993 than +between 1800 and that time [@owid-fossil-fuels; @energy-inst-2025; @smil-2017]. +Once upon a time, environmental campaigners declared that 400 parts of carbon +dioxide per million in the atmosphere ought to be an uncrossable red line: last +year, the figure ticked steadily up past 428 [@noaa-co2]. Without changes to +government policies, plastic pollution is set to triple between 2020 and 2040 +[@breaking-plastic-wave]. Since 1974, the proportion of the world's fish stocks +deemed by the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation to be within sustainable +levels has fallen from 90% to 62% [@unfao-fish-stocks]. The Living Planet Index, +the WWF's measure of wildlife populations, has declined by almost three quarters +since 1970 [@living-planet]. All these failures beg the question: why aren't the green movement's strategies working? \[EXAMPLE OF GREEN LEADER ASKING THIS QUESTION\] In particular, I want @@ -476,7 +478,6 @@ catastrophic language is counter-productive in this context. ## TODO - Find quotes and page numbers in @{back-to-nature} and @{heat} -- Explore and evidence: the green movement is on the back foot - Find examples of 'listen to the scientists' and 'science denial' discourses - Find an example: green rhetor doing some soul-searching - Explore: magical green proposals |