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Losing Earth : a recent history / Nathaniel Rich.
"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. This is their story"-- Publisher marketing.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780374191337 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 206 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references. |
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| Subject: | Global warming > History. Global environmental change > History. Carbon dioxide > Environmental aspects. Petroleum industry and trade > History. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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- Baker & Taylor
A groundbreaking account of the failures that prevented the world from committing to taking measures against climate change documents key negotiations against a backdrop of 1980s history while explaining what the choices of the past mean for today's world. - Baker & Taylor
A groundbreaking account of the failures that prevented the world from committing to taking measures against climate change documents key negotiations against the backdrop of 1980s history while explaining what the choices of the past mean for today's world. - Baker & Taylor
An account of the failures that prevented the world from committing to taking measures against climate change documents key negotiations against the backdrop of 1980s history while explaining what the choices of the past mean for today's world. - McMillan Palgrave
<p>By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate changeâincluding 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. <i>Losing Earth</i> is their story, and ours.<br><br><i>The New York Times Magazine </i>devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Richâs groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenonâthe 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.<br><br>Now expanded into book form, <i>Losing Earth</i> 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 industryâs 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. <br><br>Like John Herseyâs <i>Hiroshima</i> and Jonathan Schellâs <i>The Fate of the Earth</i>, <i>Losing Earth</i> 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.</p>
