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The Climate Book 1

by Greta Thunberg
Hardback
Publication Date: 01/11/2022
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Greta Thunberg's speeches shook the world. With The Climate Book, she has created an essential tool for everyone who wants to help save it.

It seems like an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, acting at a scale and speed that the world has never seen, in the face of vast and powerful forces--not just oil tycoons and governments, but the changing climate system itself. The odds are against us, and we are running out of time. But it doesn't have to be this way.

Around the world, geophysicists and mathematicians, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, psychologists and philosophers have been using their expertise to develop a deep understanding of the crises we face. Greta Thunberg has created The Climate Book in partnership with over one hundred of these experts in order to equip us all with this knowledge. Alongside them, Greta shares her own stories of learning, demonstrating, and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing the extent to which we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest problems, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, we will be able to act--and if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?

The Climate Book shows that we all have the responsibility of being alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity, and that, together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.

ISBN:
9780241547472
9780241547472
Category:
Climate change
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
01-11-2022
Language:
English
Publisher:
Penguin Books, Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Pages:
464
Dimensions (mm):
246x177x30mm
Weight:
1.4kg
Greta Thunberg

Greta Thunberg is a climate crisis activist from Sweden. In August 2018, she decided not to go to school one day, starting a strike outside the Swedish Parliament. Her actions sparked a global movement to fight the climate crisis, inspiring millions of students to go on strike for our planet.

Greta has Asperger's and considers it a gift which has enabled her to see the climate crisis in "black and white." She has won the prestigious Prix Liberte, has been nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize, and was selected as Time's Person of the Year in 2019. She is the author of the bestseller No One Is Too Small to Make a Difference.

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This is like a "Handbook of Climate Change". Everything that you wanted (or
should want) to know about climate change. The book has about 100 short
chapters, each written by an expert in the field, but in fairly
non-technical language. Interspersed are comments/summaries by Greta
Thunberg, who did a great job in persuading all the contributers to write
their chapters.

The book is divided into five parts: How Climate Works, How our Planet is
Changing, How it Affects Us, What We've Done About It, and What We Must Do
Now. There are no footnotes or references, but these are available from the
website theclimatebook.org.

As you might expect with 100 authors, the contributions are a bit uneven,
with some better than others, but overall the quality is very high.

The book makes a convincing case that the climate crisis is the most serious
crisis facing our species today. Unfortunately, it operates on a long
time-scale (remember the story of the frog who is put in a saucepan of water
that is slowly brought to the boil). Short-term, though ultimately less
important, crises such as the war in Ukraine, always seem to take priority.
Thus, prospects for the human race are not good. However, the book is not
all doom and gloom, and in the last part of the book "What We Must Do Now"
there is a plan for action, if we can persuade our governments to implement
it.

I recommend The Climate Book as essential reading for anyone over the age of
about twelve. It may well become the "Bible" of the 21st century.

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