John Halkett is the author of numerous scientific papers and six previous books, He plays a leading role in developing industries using trees in carbon control, including a power station in the Hunter Valley fuelled by firewood and waste. He runs a forest consultancy business and has expertise in temperate and tropical forest management and forest-based industries. He has held senior positions in government forest and conservation agencies in Australia and New Zealand. He has worked in the USA, China, Canada, Chile, PNG, Myanmar, and Africa. He is Chairman of Australian timber and energy company Sweetman Renewables and serves on Australian and international boards and committees.
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<p><em>Preface</em> by John Hewson</p><br><br><p> </p><br><br><p>Chapter 1 Preamble</p><br><br><p>Chapter 2 Setting the Scene</p><br><br><p>Chapter 3 Encounters from out there in Space</p><br><br><p>Chapter 4 It’s Heating up here on Earth</p><br><br><p>Chapter 5 Droughts, Floods and Bushfires</p><br><br><p>Chapter 6 Learning to Live in a Greenhouse</p><br><br><p>Chapter 7 Did we Kill off our Cousins?</p><br><br><p>Chapter 8 Planet Earth—we have a Problem</p><br><br><p>Chapter 9 Nature’s Light Show</p><br><br><p>Chapter 10 Getting to Grips with Trees</p><br><br><p>Chapter 11 At the Centre of Human Consciousness</p><br><br><p>Chapter 12 Forests—Where Trees Live</p><br><br><p>Chapter 13 A Language that Strangers Don’t Know</p><br><br><p>Chapter 14 Putting a Price on Nature</p><br><br><p>Chapter 15 Selling Carbon in the Market</p><br><br><p>Chapter 16 Thawing up in the Arctic</p><br><br><p>Chapter 17 Nature Relieved of her Human Burden</p><br><br><p>Chapter 18 Enter the Corona Virus</p><br><br><p>Chapter 19 Sleepwalking Past a Point of No Return</p><br><br><p>Chapter 20 Towards the Cliff Edge</p><br><br><p><em>Notes</em></p><br><br><p><em>Index </em></p><br>