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Review of ‘Life on a Little- Known Planet’ by Elizabeth Kolbert
Read more: Review of ‘Life on a Little- Known Planet’ by Elizabeth KolbertKolbert, the Pulitzer Prize winning author, has gathered for her readers 17 celebratory articles from the last 20 years of her writing career, to highlight and inspire others working for a better climate today and tomorrow. With devastating climate events happening daily around the world, articles on issues from ten years or over, may seem…
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Review of ‘Clearing the Air’ by Hannah Ritchie
Read more: Review of ‘Clearing the Air’ by Hannah Ritchie‘Climate change- and the energy, materials and food systems that drive it- is a massive but solvable problem.’ It is not often that we find a climate book that is openly honest, factual and optimistic about where we are in ‘one of the biggest challenges that humanity faces’. Ritchie structures this book into a question-…
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Review of ‘Here Comes The Sun’ by Bill McKibben
Read more: Review of ‘Here Comes The Sun’ by Bill McKibbenBill McKibben’s ‘Here Comes The Sun: A Last Chance for the Climate and a Fresh Chance for Civilization’ is a book which throughout highlights the transformative revolution of solar power and which revels in the ability for countries around the world to see past the short-term interests of the fossil fuel industry- desperately clinging on…
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Review of ‘Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet’ by Kate Marvel
Read more: Review of ‘Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet’ by Kate MarvelDr Marvel’s ‘Human Nature: Nine Ways to Feel About Our Changing Planet’ is a wonderfully balanced book. It offers clear and detailed scientific information, which logically ties all the climate clues together, while at the same being unashamedly and unapologetically a personal account of the range of feelings that the climate crisis brings. Marvel’s writing…
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Review of ‘Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis’ by Tim Lenton
Read more: Review of ‘Positive Tipping Points: How to Fix the Climate Crisis’ by Tim LentonTim Lenton’s ‘Positive Tipping Points’ does well to remind us all that we have agency to create meaningful change- that as cogs in the societal machine, we have the power to enhance and act transformatively, or to disrupt the current system. As he notes, “To get out of the incumbent, unsustainable state we need a…
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Review of ‘Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World’ by Michael Mann and Peter Hotez
Read more: Review of ‘Science Under Siege: How to Fight the Five Most Powerful Forces that Threaten Our World’ by Michael Mann and Peter HotezWhen two world-class science heavyweights take the time to warn us about scientific endeavour being under attack by bad actors, it is incumbent upon us to listen. Doctors Michael Mann and Peter Hotez have spent much of their professional life being targeted by the political and ideological opposition to science at enormous personal cost and…
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Review of ‘They Poisoned The World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals’ by Mariah Blake
Read more: Review of ‘They Poisoned The World: Life and Death in the Age of Forever Chemicals’ by Mariah BlakeBlake’s book is a detailed, comprehensive, chronological investigation into how synthetic PFAS chemicals polluted and contaminated town after town in America. It focuses on the dogged and determined individuals, who fought against chemical companies which delayed, obfuscated and denied the extent of their PFAS pollution. Most of the narratives come from individuals concerned about the…
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Review of ‘Love, Anger & Betrayal’ by Jonathon Porritt
Read more: Review of ‘Love, Anger & Betrayal’ by Jonathon PorrittJust Stop Oil. Now pause and consider the emotional response you just had to those words. Was it pride? Frustration? Anger? Apathy? From where did those emotions arise? How did you form that opinion, and has a dominant narrative shaped your response to this group of activists? Jonathon Porritt gathers together testimonies, contributions and profiles…
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Review of ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit
Read more: Review of ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ by Rebecca Solnit‘With courage nothing is impossible.’ Sir William Hillary, founder of the RNLI. These words of Hillary matched the theme of Solnit’s ‘No Straight Road Takes You There’ so aptly that they seemed like the epigraph. In both cases, saving lives at sea and climate activism, the work of volunteers is vital. Those people who understand…
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Review of ‘Total Garbage- How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal the World’, Edward Humes
Read more: Review of ‘Total Garbage- How We Can Fix Our Waste and Heal the World’, Edward Humes‘You will swallow 285 pieces of plastic today. You will do it again tomorrow, and the next day, and the next.’ ‘Total Garbage’ by Edward Humes opens with shocking facts about the level of plastic pollution that we have in our world today. He helpfully visualises the extent of the plastic that we are ingesting…
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