The Climate Book: The Facts and the Solutions
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, 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.
We still have time to change the world. From climate activist Greta Thunberg, 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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so informative, so many different voices and perspectives across disciplines, cultures, and experiences. both depressing and an inspiring call to action on the climate crisis. Lots of great holistic systemic solutions for regeneration and regrowth that are well within our grasp. should be required reading for everyone.
It is a truth scientifically acknowledged that Earth has entered “a new geological epoch…This is the age of the great greenwashing machine…What most of us experience isn’t so much global warming as global weirding.”
“The climate and ecological crisis is the greatest threat that humanity has ever faced…It is a crisis based on the idea that some people are worth more than others and that they therefore have the right to steal other people’s land, resources, future living conditions–even their lives…Some say that we are not doing enough to halt and address this crisis. But that is a lie, since ‘not doing enough’ indicates that you are doing something, and the inconvenient truth is that we are basically doing nothing.” The progress that we are told to celebrate is actually outsourcing. Just like “the people most deprived by the aqueducts of history…small islands have contributed the least to climate change. But they bear the brunt of its consequences.”
The Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee have established “agreements known as the One Bowl, One Spoon treaties. The land is understood as the Bowl, filled by Mother Earth with everything that we need. It is our responsibility to share it and keep that bowl full. How we take from the bowl is the spoon. There’s just one spoon, the same size for everyone, humans and more-than-humans alike. Not a tiny one for some and a gouging shovel for others.”
What is truly important in times of crisis is not social siloing but social cohesion. “There is nothing ‘individual’ about individual action: it is the vital building block from which social transformation is made possible…Every effective movement is an ecosystem in which people bring their different skills together to press for change.”
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