Preface
a) Why this book
b) We Have Done This Before
PART ONE: AGAIN AT THE CROSSROADS OF HISTORY
Chapter 1: Introduction – Confronting Existential Threats, Then and Now
a) The Second World War – The Last Time We Mobilized
b) Today’s Climate Crossroads Moment: It’s an Emergency!
c) Attacks on Our Soil
d) The Battle Plan: Key Lessons from the Second World War
e) War as a Sense of Purpose
Chapter 2: What We’re Up Against: The New Climate Denialism in Canada
a) Our Phony War
b) To the Barricades!
c) The Politics of Our Disconnect
d) Peace in Our Time? Appeasing the Oil and Gas Sector
e) Loose Lips Sink Ships: Ending the New Climate Denialism in Our Midst
PART TWO: GALVANIZING PUBLIC SUPPORT AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY
Chapter 3: Ready to Rally: Marshalling Public Opinion, Then and Now
a) The Public Mood in 1939
b) Let’s Go Canada! Rallying Public Opinion in Second World War
c) Where is Canadian Public Opinion Today on the Climate Emergency?
d) Rallying Public Support for Climate Mobilization
e) Public Education and Advertising
f) The Role of the News Media
g) Enlisting Arts and Culture
Chapter 4: Making Common Cause: Inequality, Then and Now
a) Wartime Mobilization Confronts Inequality
b) Inequality Today as a Barrier to Bold Climate Action
Chapter 5: Confederation Quagmire: Regional Differences, Then and Now
a) How Do you Solve a Problem like Alberta?
b) Cooperative Federalism and National Security
PART THREE: MOBILIZING ALL OUR RESOURCES
Chapter 6: Remaking the Economy, Then and Now
a) Transforming the Canadian Economy for War
b) Rejecting Economic Straightjacket Thinking: How Conventional Economics Limits the Possibilities Before Us Today
c) Mobilizing the Economy Today
Chapter 7: Mobilizing Labour: Just Transition, Then and Now
a) From Breadlines to Full Mobilization of Labour to Post-War Reintegration
b) A Made-in-Canada Green New Deal
Chapter 8: Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now
a) Mobilizing Money: War Liberates the Purse-Strings
b) Paying for Full-Scale Transition Today
PART FOUR: BOLD LEADERSHIP – FROM THE GRASSROOTS AND IN OUR POLITICS
Chapter 9: Indigenous Leadership
a) Indigenous people and the Second World War
b) How the Assertion of Rights and Title Today is Buying Us All Time
Chapter 10: Civil Society Leadership
a) Youth Leadership: The Least Say, Yet Highest Price to Pay
b) Social Movements: “Making them do it,” Then and Now
Chapter 11: Cautionary Tales: What Not to Do
a) Civil Liberties Sacrificed to Wartime Measures
b) Never Again: Responding to Refugees
Chapter 12: Transforming Our Politics: Bold Leadership, Then, There and Now
a) The Leadership Qualities That Saw Us Through the War
b) Bold is Catching On: Political Leaders Elsewhere Who Are Throwing Out The Rulebook
c) Other Jurisdictions Take Action
d) Curbing the Political Power of the Fossil Fuel Corporations
e) Aligning Our Political Parties With the Emergency
f) Institutional Political Reforms
g) A New Generation of Climate Emergency Leaders
Conclusion: Onward to Victory! Or Making Peace with Our Planet
a) A Climate Mobilization Plan for Canada: Bringing it All Together
b) The Task of Our Lives
Epilogue: The COVID-19 Pandemic and How a Recognized Emergency Makes the Impossible Possible
ONLINE APPENDICES:
Appendix 1: Climate Attacks on Canadian Soil
Appendix II: How the Oil and Gas Industry in Canada Practices the New Climate Denialism