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The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
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About This Book
We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried? We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.
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"Reading The Climate Book at a deliberate pace over some weeks (it's a lot to absorb), the cumulative impact on my understanding of the crisis through its data, cross-cultural reflections, and paths for step-by-step change became mesmerizing."
"They are proof, if further proof were needed, that she is a truly exceptional figure ..."
"A valuable resource for anyone who wants an ironclad summary of the problems, combined with some credible remedies."
"While many authors sound an apocalyptic note, their doomsaying often relies on models with myriad variables, as when oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf notes that 'we have enough ice on Earth to raise sea levels by 65 metres,' a process that may unfold 'over centuries and millennia to come.' Still, this is a comprehensive and articulate shock to the system."
"But perhaps it has taken this decade for an audience that's receptive to its message to develop."
"A remarkable contribution to climate literature—and an urgent must-read."
"The most striking chapters focus on how we live in the West."
"Vital reading for anyone who cares about the planet."
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