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The Climate Book is Exactly What We Need Right Now- Thanks Greta!
Two days ago I received my copy of “The Climate Book”, created by world-renowned climate activist Greta Thunberg. This book should be on everyone’s reading list, nightstand, desk, and bookshelf, preferably well-thumbed and post-it note filled as mine has become in the past 48 hours.
Greta invited 100 of the world’s leading experts on climate change and its impacts, to contribute short, accessible articles grouped into five themes:
- How Climate Works
- How Our Planet is Changing
- How It Affects Us
- What We’ve Done About It
- What We Must Do Now
The genius of this book is the way in which it summarises exceptionally complex issues and a mindblowing number of statistics into a very readable, enjoyable experience, not something one can say about most of the media output and books I’ve been reading over the past 30 plus years on the topic.
Amongst the one-hundred authors, we have contributions from a dozen well-known climate and social justice rockstars such as Johan Rockstrom, Naomi Klein, Katharine Hayhoe, Tedros Ghebreysus, Bill McKibben, Nicholas Stern, Kate Raworth, Per Espen Stoknes, Michael Mann, George Monbiot, Thomas Piketty, and Wanjira Mathai, as well as…
