{"title":"All Countries Will Agree on Climate Fairness","authors":"J. Galbraith","doi":"10.1017/9781108783453.004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108783453.004","url":null,"abstract":"O n january 30, 1933, president paul von hindenburg appointed Adolf Hitler Chancellor of Germany. Hitler’s Nazi party had won only 33% of the vote, but he pledged to govern in a coalition with other right-wing parties. Instead, over the next two months he issued executive decrees that overruled existing laws and consolidated his power. Soon, political opposition in Germany was illegal, and newly constructed concentration camps held the leaders of all parties except those closest to the Nazis. DuringHitler’s 12-year reign of terror and war, over 60million people died. With hindsight, we can say that German citizens should have stopped him before he consolidated his fascist dictatorship. But is it fair to judge people who lived at that time? Is it fair to say they should have anticipated the horrific global outcome and acted in time to prevent it? There were in fact people inside and outside Germany who tried early to convince others of the urgency of preventative action. Hitler had stated his intentions in his book, Mein Kampf, which he wrote while serving a short prison term after his failed coup d’état of 1923. In this personal manifesto, Hitler claimed it was the destiny of the German people, as the superior Aryan race, to struggle for world domination, and his personal duty to lead them.","PeriodicalId":437034,"journal":{"name":"The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127902507","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Peak Oil Will Get Us First Anyway","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/9781108783453.007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108783453.007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":437034,"journal":{"name":"The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success","volume":"40 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125685820","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Role of Myths in Our Climate-Energy Challenge","authors":"Mark Jaccard","doi":"10.1017/9781108783453.001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108783453.001","url":null,"abstract":"I n the summer of 1990, as he announced his army’s surprise invasion of Kuwait, the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein told his people that the neighboring oil-rich country was rightfully theirs. Many believed him. When he announced Kuwait’s annexation, as Iraq’s 19th province, they celebrated with patriotic fervor. Several months later, a US-led military coalition, which included Arab states, threatened to expel the Iraqi occupiers. Undaunted, Hussein assured his people that their army would annihilate its foes in the “mother of all battles.” By this time, some Iraqis were probably questioning, at least to themselves, the veracity of Saddam’s claims. But under his brutal dictatorship there was little they could do. In early 1991, they watched in horror as coalition forces destroyed the fleeing Iraqi army. Thousands of their sons, brothers, and husbands were helplessly slaughtered in the desert by the massive firepower of the coalition. As George Orwell said, a battlefield provides a solid reality check on false beliefs. The US president who led the coalition was George H. W. Bush. His forces could easily have taken Baghdad and overthrownHussein. Instead, they halted their advance in southern Iraq and then withdrew. They had","PeriodicalId":437034,"journal":{"name":"The Citizen's Guide to Climate Success","volume":"183 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133377317","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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