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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


      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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