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For the people of Kivalina, Alaska, the price of further climate change denial could be the complete devastation of their lives and culture. Their village must be relocated to survive, and neither the fossil fuel giants nor the U.S. government are willing to take full responsibility.

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<p> This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what's happening to the people of Kivalina. It's a tragedy because it's unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed on the part of some of the biggest and richest companies on earth. <br><p>--Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet <br><p> Shearer pulls no punches in this extraordinary account of one Alaskan village's confrontation with the violence of climate change. Villagers sued fossil fuel companies for endangering their homeland and lying about it, underscoring the importance of sound science, traditional knowledge, and accurate information as critical ingredients for sustaining the climate justice movement. Shearer also considers the history of the Product Defense Industry, through which she links the politics of energy to a host of other sectors whose supporters have made it their business to manufacture doubt and misrepresentation about the r

<p> This story is a tragedy, and not just because of what's happening to the people of Kivalina. It's a tragedy because it's unnecessary, the product, as the author shows, of calculation, deception, manipulation, and greed on the part of some of the biggest and richest companies on earth. <br><p>--Bill McKibben, author of Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet <br><p> I watched the lights of the oil fields grow in intensity and proximity, although they were many miles away. The flaring of the gas became a harbinger of hard nights on call, due to increases in respiratory illness among our people. Compounding this were changes to the land and water around us, affecting the animals and their [habits].... This book provides an understanding of the obstacles I have been facing while working on the basic issues of promoting and protecting the health, culture, and traditions of our people. <br><p>--Rosemary Ahtuanguaruak, board member of the Inupiat Community of the Arctic Slope, foundi

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Christine Shearer, PhD, is the Senior Researcher at the energy and climate organization CoalSwarm. She previously worked as postdoctoral scholar in Earth System Science at the University of California in Irvine, as a research fellow at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, and as a reporter for the Center for Investigative Reporting. Her writing has appeared in science and media publications including Nature, Environmental Research Letters, National Geographic, and The New York Times. She received her PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Santa Barbara.

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