- Title:
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Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change
- Written by:
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Nathaniel Rich
- Read by:
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Matt Godfrey
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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5
- Duration:
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5 hours 18 minutes
- Published:
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May 28 2019
- Available Date:
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May 28 2019
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781529020045
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Earth Science; Science & Technology
- Publisher:
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Bolinda/Macmillan audio
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The most urgent story of our times, brilliantly reframed, beautifully told: how we had the chance to stop climate change, and failed.
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change – what was happening, why it was happening and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.
Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure – and how tantalisingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism – is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favourable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.
In the audiobook Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did – and didn't – happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonising revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.