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This book is about the steps you can take and the choices you can make to combat global warming.
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.
—Edmund Burke
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A note about numbers and terms: Throughout this book, all discussions of emissions, unless otherwise noted, use pounds and tons (2,000 pounds in a ton)—the most familiar units of measurement to most U.S. readers. Similarly, discussions of “carbon emissions” refer to emissions of units of “carbon dioxide equivalent” (CO2e), as will be more fully explained in chapter 7.
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Shulman, S. et al. (2012). Can One Person Make a Difference?. In: Cooler Smarter. Island Press/Center for Resource Economics. https://doi.org/10.5822/978-1-61091-234-1_1
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