PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Many people keen to take action on climate have asked Greta Thunberg for her reading recommendations - this is her attempt to package the essentials together in one place. The Climate Book is an essential tool for everyone who wants to help save the planet.
It seems like an impossible task - secure a safe future for life on Earth, acting on a scale and speed 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're 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 100 of these experts to help 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 can ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?
Greta Thunberg was born in 2003. In August 2018, she started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over the world. She is an activist in Fridays for Future and has spoken at climate rallies across the globe, as well as at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the U.S. Congress, and the United Nations.
With The Climate Book, a stunning and essential new work, Greta Thunberg takes her mission to the next level ... [It is] an incredible and moving resource. There are chapters on almost everything you might need to know about ... the book is a curated, portable library of knowledge, full of classics. Everyone will get something different from reading this book ... It is an extraordinary body of work and I can't recommend it highly enough. You feel the passion as well as the intellectual heft of the authors, and that is what is so moving about it. It is time for all of us to rise up -- Rowan Hooper * New Scientist * I would hope it is the kind of book everyone feels they should buy, read and act on: if you've tried to recycle a coffee pod, bought an electric car or started using a reusable water bottle, this book knows the combination of fear, hope and duty that made you do it and has a million more suggestions. It should be a bookcase staple, like Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time or Yuval Noah Harari's Sapiens -- Caitlin Moran * The Times * The Climate Book makes for sobering but compelling reading - the kind of book that, once you've finished, you cannot forget * Elle *
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