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The Climate Majority
The Climate Majority is the first book to investigate climate apathy, to describe how it prevents action to stop climate change and to show how it can be beaten with an approach developed for political campaigns. Leo Barasi argues that dangerous climate change will only be prevented if the majority of people—including those who aren’t environmentalists—are persuaded of the need to limit emissions. He applies his policy and campaign experience to show that politicizing climate change makes it more difficult to build consensus, particularly among people who are currently apathetic. This is one of few books to focus on public opinion and climate change and it attempts to reveal what peopl...
From Student Strikes to the Extinction Rebellion
Across the world, millions of people are taking to the streets demanding urgent action on climate breakdown and other environmental emergencies. Extinction Rebellion, Fridays for Future and Climate Strikes are part of a new lexicon of environmental protest advocating civil disobedience to leverage change. This groundbreaking book – also a Special Issue of the Journal of Human Rights and the Environment – critically unveils the legal and political context of this new wave of eco-activisms. It illustrates how the practise of dissent builds on a long tradition of grassroots activism, such as the Anti-Nuclear movement, but brings into focus new participants, such as school children, and new distinctive aesthetic tactics, such as the mass ‘die-ins’ and ‘discobedience’ theatrics in public spaces.
Parents for a Future
That our ecological future appears grave can no longer come as any surprise. And yet we have so far failed, collectively and individually, to begin the kind of action necessary to shift our path away from catastrophic climate collapse. In this stark and startling little book, Rupert Read helps us to understand the direness of our predicament while showing us a metaphor and a method a way of thinking by which we might transform it. From the relatively uncontroversial starting point that we love our own children, we are introduced to a logic of care that iterates far into the future: in caring for our own children, we are committed to caring for the whole of human future; in caring for the whole of human future, we are committed to caring for the future of the natural world. Out of such thinking, hope emerges. As Read demonstrates in this urgent call to action, accepting that we care for our own offspring commits us to a struggle on behalf of us all.
Extinct
I want you to imagine me in a crowd of people. It's 2030 and the mean temperature this summer has been 40 degrees celsius. It's midday. The sun is nuclear hot. There have been spontaneous outbreaks of fires round the country the closest to us in Epping forest, a monster conflagration which raged for 3 weeks. A woman stands alone on stage. She has one hour to change our future. One hour to avert catastrophe. She'll give everything she has. Addressing the climate emergency head on, Extinct includes testimony from environmental activists. Extinct opened at Stratford East in June 2021.
Polling UnPacked
From a political-polling expert, an eye-opening—and hilarious—look at the origins of polls and how they have been used and abused ever since. Opinion polls dominate media coverage of politics, especially elections. But how do the polls work? How do we tell the good from the bad? And in light of recent polling disasters, can we trust them at all? Polling UnPacked gives us the full story, from the first rudimentary polls in the nineteenth century, through attempts by politicians to ban polling in the twentieth century, to the very latest techniques and controversies from the last few years. Equal parts enlightening and hilarious, the book requires no prior knowledge of polling or statistics to understand. But even hardened pollsters will find much to enjoy, from how polling has been used to help plan military invasions to why an exhausted interviewer was accidentally instrumental in inventing exit polls. Written by a former political pollster and the creator of Britain’s foremost polling-intention database, Polling UnPacked reveals which opinion polls to trust, which to ignore, and which, frankly, to laugh at. It will change the way we see political coverage forever.
Too Hot to Handle?
Scientists are clear that urgent action is needed on climate change, and world leaders agree. Yet climate issues barely trouble domestic politics. This book explores a central dilemma of the climate crisis: science demands urgency; politics turns the other cheek. Is it possible to hope for a democratic solution to climate change? Based on interviews with leading politicians and activists, and the author’s twenty years on the frontline of climate politics, this book explores why climate is such a challenge for political systems, even when policy solutions exist. It argues that more democracy, not less, is needed to tackle the climate crisis, and suggests practical ways forward.
The Pivotal Generation
An eminent philosopher explains why we owe it to future generations to take immediate action on global warming Climate change is the supreme challenge of our time. Yet despite growing international recognition of the unfolding catastrophe, global carbon emissions continue to rise, hitting an all-time high in 2019. Unless humanity rapidly transitions to renewable energy, it may be too late to stop irreversible ecological damage. In The Pivotal Generation, renowned political philosopher Henry Shue makes an impassioned case for taking immediate, radical action to combat global warming. Shue grounds his argument in a rigorous philosophical analysis of climate change’s moral implications. Unlik...
Angry Weather
From leading climate scientist Dr. Friederike Otto, this gripping book reveals the revolutionary science that definitively links extreme weather events—including deadly heat waves, forest fires, floods, and hurricanes—to climate change. “Meet the forensic scientists of climate change; if you like CSI, you’ll be equally enthralled with the skill and speed these folks exhibit. But the stakes are infinitely higher!” —Bill McKibben, author of Falter and The End of Nature Tied with Hurricane Katrina as the costliest cyclone on record, Hurricane Harvey caused catastrophic flooding and over a hundred deaths in 2017. Angry Weather tells the compelling, day-by-day story of the World Weath...
Açık Yeşil II / İklim Krizi, Politika ve Aktivizm
“Kış Gelmeyecek. Ateş Çağına Hazırlanalım!” Türkiye ve dünya çapında ekoloji mücadelesinin seyrini kayıt altına alan Açık Yeşil’in ikinci kitabında, dünyanın dört bir yanında, tüm kıtalarda cereyan eden ve neredeyse 7,6 milyon insanı sokaklara döken, yeryüzünün belki de en büyük kitlesel hareketlerinden birine tanıklık ediyoruz. Açık Yeşil’de iklim bilimine ilişkin yayımlanmış en güncel raporların yanı sıra, önde gelen ekolojistlerle ve iklim aktivistleriyle mülakatlar yer alıyor. Açık Yeşil’in bu ikinci kitabı, kuşaklar arası adaletsizliğin ve gezegen üzerindeki yıkıcı hâkimiyetimizin son bulması için çarpıcı bir uyarı niteliğinde.
Rewolucja energetyczna
Książki o systemie energetycznym, zasobach i środowisku w większości dzielą się na dwie kategorie: tak fachowe i trudne, że nikt poza jajogłowymi ekspertami nie jest w stanie przez nie przebrnąć, oraz nadmiernie uproszczone i tym samym niedające prawdziwego zrozumienia tematu. Rewolucja energetyczna to dogłębna analiza sytuacji energetycznej świata i Polski podana w przystępnej formie. Jest tu wszystko to, co zwykle kojarzy nam się nie z pozycjami analitycznymi, lecz powieściami sensacyjnymi. Na horyzoncie majaczy zagrożenie, a im bliżej mu się przyglądamy, tym bardziej okazuje się realne i przerażające. Są dzierżące władzę „czarne charaktery” działające d...
