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Pied flycatchers, 120
Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, 54–56, 63
Polar ice melt, 154
Pollock, Jackson, 276
Polycultures, 83
Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace, 142
Port Augusta, Australia, 4
Portugal, 220
Presidential elections (US)
1936, 275
2004, 73
2012, 76
2016, 191, 239
2020, 31, 260
Pressley, Ayanna, 29, 36
Prince Edward Island, Canada, 65
Prison labor, 215
Privatization, 85, 192, 248
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 85
Prosperity Without Growth (Jackson), 87
Public infrastructure, 81–82, 90
Public Works Administration, 34
Puerto Rico, 3, 234–235, 253–258, 267–278
Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), 254
Quaternary Science Reviews, 159n
Quebec, Canada, 185
Quebec City mosque, 42
Rain forests, 4
Rainfall, 161, 213
Rainforest Action Network, The, 101
Ramirez, Debra, 64
Raworth, Kate, 265
Reagan, Ronald, 40
Realism, new conception of, 81
Recycling, 122, 123n
Red Hook, Brooklyn, New York, 134–135
Reddit, 43
Religion News Service, 139
Renewable energy, 22, 80, 81, 84, 89, 102, 130, 160, 176, 179, 199, 201, 255, 266, 281, 284
Repair, concept of, 269–270
Reparations, 46
Republican Party (US), 61–62, 74–76, 280, 290
Resource sharing, 46, 53
Respiratory illnesses, 156
Rich, Nathaniel, 243–250
Rinehart, Steve, 60
Robinson, Cedric, 19–20
Robinson, Mary, 142, 146
Rockefeller family, 134
Rocky Mountain shale, 62
Rocky Mountains, 218
Rogers, Sandra, 3
Romney, Mitt, 76
Roosevelt, Franklin D., 22, 26, 31, 33, 262, 273–276, 279, 286, 290
Ross, Russell Myers, 226
Rothschild, Richard, 70, 72
Roy, Arundhati, 197
Ruach (rushing-spirit), 126
Sacrifice zones, 156–158, 160
Safe Third Country Agreement, 48
Said, Edward, 149–150, 152–155, 160, 167–168
Salish Sea, 212
Salmon, 18
Salvini, Matteo, 48
San Francisco, California, 3
Sancton, Thomas, 246–247
Sanders, Bernie, 30, 239, 260
Sao Paulo, Brazil, 212
Saro-Wiwa, 156
Scaife, Richard Mellon, 94
Scamell, Rosie, 138–139
Scheiderman, Jill, 58
Schmitt, Harrison, 71
School Strikes for Climate, 2, 267
New Zealand, 40–41
Schurman, Jason, 228–229
Scotland, 22
Sea level rise, 25, 41, 46, 150, 154, 164, 224
Secwepemc people, 224–225, 233
Shell Oil, 156, 218, 264
Arctic drilling rig, 135–136
Shiva, Vandana, 196, 197
Shock doctrine, 98, 235, 236
Shock Doctrine, The (Klein), 98
Siberia, 220
Sila, 126
Silva Ibarra, Honesto, 214
Sinclair, Upton, 262
Slavery, 50, 187, 196, 201
Smoke, wildfire, 3, 5, 208–215, 218, 219, 222, 223, 229, 231–233
Socialism, 35, 79–80, 263, 290
Soil erosion, 83
Solar eclipse, 232
Solar power, 16–17, 39, 80n, 160, 205–206, 261, 281
Solar radiation management, 230–231
Solomon Islands, 2
Somalia, 162, 163
Songbird species, 119–120
Soon, Willie, 94
Sopoaga, Enele, 142
South Africa, 220
South African workers, 215–216
South Carolina, 257
South Sudan, 16
South Waziristan, 162
Soviet Union, collapse of, 37, 115, 248, 251, 263
Speth, Gus, 86
Stagflation, 86
Stalinists, 93
Standing Rock Sioux, 30, 189, 205
Stanford University, 134
Stanton, Ed, 55
State, U.S. Department of, 102
Steinbeck, John, 276
Steiner, Rick, 63
Steinmetz, George, 243
Stern, Nicholas, 115
Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change, 98
Stockholm International Peace Institute, 284
Stone, Ed, 110
“StratoShield,” 106–107
Student strikes, 1–4, 6–7, 13, 21, 25, 40–42, 44, 52
Sulfur dioxide, 230
Sumas, Washington, 214
Suncor, 218
Sunrise Movement, 22, 23, 27, 29, 51, 267, 271, 278
Sunshine Coast, British Columbia, 104, 208–213, 217, 222–223, 229–231
Super Typhoon Mangkhut, 256
Superstorm Sandy, 3, 134–135, 215, 256, 266
Sutherland, Mia, 41–42, 44
Sweden, 8–11, 251
Sydney Peace Prize Acceptance Speech, 2016 (Klein), 191–206
Syria, 5, 161
Tar sands extraction, 19, 76–77, 118, 156–157, 159, 160, 170, 188, 200, 228
Taseko Mines, 226
Tasmania, 4
Tax Justice Network (UK), 284
Temperatures, 6, 72, 76, 78, 95, 97, 113–114, 150, 165, 183, 198, 209, 220, 221, 224, 260
Temporary farmworkers, 214–215
Tennessee Valley Authority, 34
Terra nullius, 50, 158
Texas, 188
Thatcher, Margaret, 249, 291
This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate (Klein), 28, 249
Thomas, Jim, 107
350.org, 22, 102
Thunberg, Greta, 7–13, 15–16, 24, 39, 44, 53, 284–285
Tlaib, Rashida, 29, 288
Tobacco companies, 89, 245
TransCanada, 218
Transition Town movement, 82
Tree of Life synagogue, Pittsburgh, 42
Tree planting, 26, 39, 150–151
Trenberth, Kevin, 106n
Trudeau, Justin, 7, 19, 48, 158, 183, 224, 226–227
Trudeau, Pierre, 171
Trumbull, Malcolm, 163–164, 198
Trump, Donald, 6, 20, 48, 49, 162–163, 170n, 186n, 191–193, 197, 198, 227, 230, 235–236, 242, 252, 254, 256–257, 259–260
Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Canada, 157, 189
Tsilhqot’in First Nation, 226
Turkson, Peter Kodwo Appiah, 142, 143
Tutu, Desmond, 197
Tuvalu, 142, 154
Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research, 113
Unemployment insurance, 262
Union of Concerned Scientists, 35
United Arab Emirates, 184
United Kingdom, 18, 19, 22, 32, 34–35, 113–115, 117, 160, 166, 168, 234–242
United Nations climate conferences, 11, 16, 22, 89, 107
United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, 158
United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, 21
United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), 23–25, 27, 28, 30, 31, 33, 37, 138, 155, 246, 260, 282
United Nations Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services, 5
United Nations World Meteorological Organization, 23
United States Energy and Employment Report (USEER), 281
United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, 106<
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Uruguay, 251
U’wa people, 66
van Lonn, Hendrik Willem, 276
Vancouver, Canada, 209–210
Vancouver Island, 212, 227
Vanity Fair, 76
Vanuata island, 2
Varoufakis, Yanic, 254
Vatican, 20, 137–139, 145, 147–148
Venezuela, 251
Victor, Peter, 86
Vietnam War, 171, 172
Villaseñor, Alexandria, 7
Walcott, Rinaldo, 193–194
Wales, 22
Walsh, Rodolfo, 253
Warren, Elizabeth, 30, 260
Wartime mobilizations, 34–35
Washington State, 219, 233
Waterkeeper Alliance, 65
Wathen, John, 65
Watson, Robert, 5
Wealth of Nations, The (Smith), 196
Weizman, Eyal, 161–162
Werner, Brad, 110–113, 118
West Bank, 152, 162
West Virginia, 188
Wetlands, 39
Whales, 104, 105
White supremacy, 42–45, 194, 259
Wildfires, 3–5, 75, 125n, 207–216, 218–228, 232–233
Wind power, 39, 80n, 160, 281
Women’s Marches, 266
Workers’ Compact (Europe), 31
Works Progress Administration, 34, 276
World Bank, 45, 90
World Conference on the Changing Atmosphere in Toronto (1988), 246
World Economic Summit, Davos, 11, 12
World Trade Organization, 85
World War II, 34–35, 237
Wyoming coalfields, 76
Yale University
Cultural Cognition Project, 92
Program on Climate Change Communication, 74n
Yemen, 162
York University, 86
Young, Neil, 182
YouTube, 43
Zinke, Ryan, 227n, 228n
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