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It’s the perfect recipe.
Take Jeffrey Simpson, renowned political expert, and writer of clear prose aimed at the intelligent reader. Add Mark Jaccard, prize-winning author of academic books, and Simon Fraser University’s famed climate change guru. Add tireless researcher Nic Rivers, a leading policy analyst and writer with special graph-creating skills. Mix well together, season with a dash of outrage, then add the SIMS secret ingredient, shake up, and place in a warming country till done, slice into chapters and serve.
The result is a book that explains what is happening here in Canada. Equally important, it explains what is not happening, and why -- with politicians, business leaders, and even environmentalists taking their share of blame. Even more important, it demonstrates what needs to happen, and precisely how to bring it about.
Readers who have long forgotten their high-school science classes will be grateful to have this complex subject laid out so simply and clearly, chapter by chapter. And the SIMS planned simulation system -- developed by Mark Jaccard but used around the world -- shows us exactly what our options are.
Jeffrey Simpson has been the Globe and Mail’s national columnist since 1984 and is a nationally recognized figure and an Officer of the Order of Canada. A former Governor General’s award-winner, he is the author most recently of The Friendly Dictatorship.
Mark Jaccard is a professor at SFU’s School of Resource and Environmental Management and an internationally respected authority on climate change. His academic publications have won him the Best Policy Book Award and the Donner Prize, and he has been called “Canada’s best mind on the environment.”
Nic Rivers, an engineer and resource manager by training, is an analyst and writer at SFU who has written for academic journals, government agencies, and think tanks such as the Institute for Research on Public Policy.
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