Mark Lynas

Six Minutes to Winter

Nuclear War and How to Avoid It

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Produktbeschreibung

Nuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than climate change, yet we are in near-total denial. This book puts the issue back to the top of the global agenda.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 141mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 392g
• ISBN-13: 9781399410519
• ISBN-10: 1399410512
• Artikelnr.: 71647676

Autorenporträt

Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and campaigner whose books have drawn attention to the perils of global warming. He is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, and was Climate Advisor to the President of the Maldives from 2009 to 2011. He has contributed extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and numerous others. He is research lead at the Alliance for Science at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an affiliate of Cornell University, and has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on vaccines, climate and GMOs. He is co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign network RePlanet, launched in 2021 and now active in 12 countries.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Brighter than a thousand suns
Chapter 1: Why we need to start worrying
Chapter 2: Winter
Chapter 3: Wildfires and war
Chapter 4: Volcanic winters
Chapter 5: End Cretaceous
Chapter 6: Existential risk
Chapter 7: Close calls
Chapter 8: Radioactive fallout
Chapter 9: Ban the bomb
Epilogue: The cherry blossoms of Hiroshima

Rezensionen

'Gripping, terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed.'