Author: Nathaniel Rich
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781250251251
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.
Losing Earth
Author: Nathaniel Rich
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781250251251
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781250251251
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.
Agrarian Puerto Rico
Author: César J. Ayala
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108488463
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism's impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108488463
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 327
Book Description
Challenges dominant interpretations of colonialism's impact on the economy and social structuring of a US-owned Caribbean colony.
Losing Earth
Author: Nathaniel Rich
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781529015843
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.
Publisher: Picador
ISBN: 9781529015843
Category : Climatic changes
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.In the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.
Losing Earth
Author: Nathaniel Rich
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783737100748
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 224
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783737100748
Category :
Languages : de
Pages : 224
Book Description
The Coronado Expedition, 1540-1542
Author: George Parker Winship
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Sobre Ruedas
Author: Marino Favela León
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463330065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Sobre ruedas una historia entrelazada de un trailero de la época actual, con los últimos días de un sargento Callista a quien se le asigna una misión de carácter personal por parte del mismo gobierno la cual fracasa enterrando junto a sus sueños una bolsa llena de centenarios, para que después de varias décadas accidentalmente un viejo trailero con inicios del Alzheimer la encuentre y pueda darle una explicación a su incomodo nieto de lo que él piensa sobre el destino y de las etapas de vida
Publisher: Palibrio
ISBN: 1463330065
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Sobre ruedas una historia entrelazada de un trailero de la época actual, con los últimos días de un sargento Callista a quien se le asigna una misión de carácter personal por parte del mismo gobierno la cual fracasa enterrando junto a sus sueños una bolsa llena de centenarios, para que después de varias décadas accidentalmente un viejo trailero con inicios del Alzheimer la encuentre y pueda darle una explicación a su incomodo nieto de lo que él piensa sobre el destino y de las etapas de vida
Author:
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Publisher: Bib. Orton IICA / CATIE
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Crónicas Y Relaciones Del Occidente de México
Author: Fernando Ocaranza
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 408
Book Description
El criticón
Author: Theodore L. Kassier
Publisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729300063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Publisher: Tamesis
ISBN: 9780729300063
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description