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Boiling Point by Ross Gelbspan

Boiling Point

How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists and Activists Are Fueling the Climate Crisis--and What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

by Ross Gelbspan
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  • Jul 1, 2004, 272 pages
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  • Nov 2005, 304 pages
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