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The climate book
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Book
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New York : Penguin Press, 2023.
©2022
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446 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
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"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"-- Provided by publisher.
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'To solve this problem, we need to understand it' / Greta Thunberg ; The deep history of carbon dioxide / Peter Brannen ; Our evolutionary impact / Beth Shapiro ; Civilization and extinction / Elizabeth Kolbert ; 'The science is as solid as it gets' / Greta Thunberg ; The discovery of climate change / Michael Oppenheimer ; Why didn't they act? / Naomi Oreskes ; Tipping points and feedback loops / Johan Rockström ; 'This is the biggest story in the world' / Greta Thunberg.
'The weather seems to be on steroids' / Greta Thunberg ; Heat / Katharine Hayhoe ; Methane and other gases / Zeke Hausfather ; Air pollution and aerosols / Bjørn H. Samset ; Clouds / Paulo Ceppi ; Arctic warming and the Jet Stream / Jennifer Francis ; Dangerous weather / Friederike Otto ; 'The snowball has been set in motion; / Greta Thunberg ; Droughts and floods / Kate Marvel ; Ice sheets, shelves and glaciers / Ricarda Winkelmann ; Warming oceans and rising seas / Stefan Rahmstorf ; Acidification and marine ecosystems / Hans-Otto Pörtner ; Microplastics / Karin Kvale ; Fresh water / Peter H. Gleick ; 'It is much closer to home than we think' / Greta Thunberg ; Wildfires / Joëlle Gergis ; The Amazon / Carlos A. Nobre, Julia Arieira, Nathália Nascimento ; Boreal and temperate forests / Beverly E. Law ; Terrestrial biodiversity / Adriana de Palma, Andy Purvis ; Insects / Dave Goulson ; Nature's calendar / Keith W. Larson ; Soil / Jennifer L. Soong ; Permafrost / Örjan Gustafsson ; What happens at 1.5, 2 and 4°C of warming? / Tamsin Edwards.
'The world has a fever' / Greta Thunberg ; Health and climate / Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus ; Heat and illness / Ana M. Vicedo-Cabrera ; Air pollution / Drew Shindell ; Vector-borne diseases / Felipe J. Colón-González ; Antibiotic resistance / John Brownstein, Derek MacFadden, Sarah McGough, Mauricio Santillana ; Food and nutrition / Samuel S. Myers ; 'We are not all in the same boat' / Greta Thunberg ; Life at 1.1°C / Saleemul Huq ; Environmental racism / Jacqueline Patterson ; Climate refugees / Abrahm Lustgarten ; Sea-level rise and small islands / Michael Taylor ; Rain in the Sahel / Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim ; Winter in Sápmi / Elin Anna Labba ; Fighting for the forest / Sônia Guajajara ; 'Enormous challenges are waiting' / Greta Thunberg ; Warming and inequality / Solomon Hsiang ; Water shortages / Taikan Oki ; Climate conflicts / Marshall Burke ; The true cost of climate change / Eugene Linden.
'How can we undo our failures if as are unable to admit that we have failed?' / Greta Thunberg ; The new denialism / Kevin Anderson ; The truth about government climate targets / Alexandra Urisman Otto ; 'We are not moving in the right direction' / Greta Thunberg ; The persistence of fossil fuels / Bill McKibben ; The rise of renewables / Glen Peters ; How can forests help us? / Karl-Heinz Erb, Simone Gingrich ; What about geoengineering? / Niclas Hällström, Jennie C. Stephens, Isak Stoddard ; Drawdown technologies / Rob Jackson ; 'A whole new way of thinking' / Greta Thunberg ; Our imprint on the land / Alexander Popp ; The calorie question / Michael Clark ; Designing new food systems / Sonja Vermeulen ; Mapping emissions in an industrial world / John Barrett, Alice Garvey ; The technical hitch / Ketan Joshi ; The challenge of transport / Alice Larkin ; Is the future electric? / Jillian Anable, Christian Brand ; 'They keep saying one thing while doing another' / Greta Thunberg ; The cost of consumerism / Annie Lowrey ; How (not) to buy / Mike Berners-Lee ; Waste around the world / Silpa Kaza ; The myth of recycling / Nina Schrank ; 'This is where we draw the line' / Greta Thunberg ; Emissions and growth / Nicholas Stern ; Equity / Sunita Narain ; Degrowth / Jason Hickel ; The perception gap / Amitav Ghosh.
'The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves' / Greta Thunberg ; Individual action, social transformation / Stuart Capstick, Lorraine Whitmarsh ; Towards 1.5°C lifestyles / Kate Raworth ; Overcoming climate apathy / Per Espen Stoknes ; Changing our diets / Gidon Eshel ; Remembering the ocean / Ayana Elizabeth Johnson ; Rewilding / George Monbiot, Rebecca Wrigley ; 'We now have to do the seemingly impossible' / Greta Thunberg ; Practical utopias / Margaret Atwood ; People power / Erica Chenoweth ; Changing the media narrative / George Monbiot ; Resisting the new denialism / Michael E. Mann ; A genuine emergency response / Seth Klein ; Lessons from the pandemic / David Wallace-Wells ; 'Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice' / Greta Thunberg ; A just transition / Naomi Klein ; What does equity mean to you / Nicki Becker, Disha A. Ravi, Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, Laura Verónica Muñoz, Ina Maria Shikongo, Ayisha Siddiqa, Mitzi Jonelle Tan ; Women and the climate crisis / Wanjira Mathai ; Decarbonization requires redistribution / Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty ; Climate reparations / Olúfé̦mi O. Táíwò ; Mending our relationship with the Earth / Robin Wall Kimmerer ; 'Hope is something you have to earn' / Greta Thunberg.
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9780593492307
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