Gathering Storm

Climate Risk and American Vulnerability
1. Auflage 2027
ISBN: 978-1-5095-7702-6
Verlag: Wiley John + Sons

Buch, Englisch, 150 Seiten

China is winning a war most Americans don't know they're fighting. While Washington wrangles over climate policy, Beijing has seized control of the clean energy industries that will power the twenty-first century – and of the critical minerals needed for every solar panel and every F-35 fighter jet and Tomahawk missile. For Beijing, this is not environmentalism; it's geopolitics.

Gathering Storm makes the case – grounded in national security, economic self-interest, and hard data – that America's retreat from this contest is a strategic blunder. Back home, billion-dollar weather disasters have more than doubled in recent years, insurance companies are fleeing high-risk markets, and working Americans who did everything right are finding themselves unprotected. Extreme weather is already hammering farm country, small towns, and Republican-leaning states hardest. Nine of the ten states facing the worst climate impacts lean red.

Some American leaders say "relax, it's not happening," while China is investing massively in diverting water to arid zones, building seawalls, stockpiling food, and flood-proofing cities. Beijing is taking control of world energy supply and preparing its society for a climate-disrupted world – and framing it explicitly as national security strategy.

This is a book for Americans who put country before politics – conservatives as well as liberals. The contest is not over. But the clock is ticking.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hamilton, Clive

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltpolitik, Umweltprotokoll
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1. America, China, and global power
Planning for dominance
China's energy statecraft
America's choice

2. When the weather hits home
The shift you can feel
Climate patterns
When insurance stops working
Housing stress

3. A society under pressure
Bad for your health
Livelihoods

Fragile infrastructure
Fracturing community
Prudence

4. Americans on the move
Seeking safety
Fiscal strains
Red state/blue state
If the trend continues…

5. Building resilience and national strength
Homeland security
Transition or revolution?
The price of missing out
The resilience race

Afterword
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Clive Hamilton is a best-selling author and a former professor of public ethics at Charles Sturt University in Canberra.