Nathaniel Rich

Losing Earth (eBook, ePUB)

The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Nathaniel Rich's account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn't want to.' - Observer

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 tells the essential story of why and how, thanks to the actions of politicians and businessmen, that failure came about. It is crucial to an understanding of where we are today.

'The excellent and appalling Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich describes how close we came in the 70s to dealing with the causes of global warming and how US big business and Reaganite politicians in the 80s ensured it didn't happen. Read it.' - John Simpson

'An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved.' - Nature

'To change the future, we must first understand our past, and Losing Earth is a crucial part of that when it comes to the environmental battles we're facing.'- Stylist

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Altersempfehlung: ab 18 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. April 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529015850
• Artikelnr.: 56308667

Autorenporträt

Nathaniel Rich is the author of two previous novels, Odds Against Tomorrow and The Mayor's Tongue, and a work of nonfiction, Losing Earth: A Recent History. His short fiction has appeared in McSweeney's, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and VICE, and he is a writer at large for The New York Times Magazine. He lives in New Orleans.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
i: Introduction Unit
ii: Part I: Shouts in the Street:1979
1982 Chapter
1: The Whole Banana: Spring 1979 Chapter
2: Mirror Worlds: Spring 1979 Chapter
3: Between Clambake and Chaos: July 1979 Chapter
4: Enter Cassandra, Raving: 1979
1980 Chapter
5: A Very Aggressive Defensive Program: 1979
1980 Chapter
6: Tiger on the Road: October 1980 Chapter
7: A Deluge Most Unnatural: November 1980
September 1981 Chapter
8: Heroes and Villains: March 1982 Chapter
9: The Direction of an Impending Catastrophe: 1982 Unit
iii: Part II: Bad Science Fiction: 1983
1988 Chapter
10: Caution Not Panic: 1983
1984 Chapter
11: The World of Action: 1985 Chapter
12: The Ozone in October: Fall 1985
Summer 1986 Chapter
13: Atmospheric Scientist, New York, N.Y.: Fall 1987
Spring 1988 Unit
iv: Part III: You Will See Things That You Shall Believe: 1988
1989 Chapter
14: Nothing but Bonfires: Summer 1988 Chapter
15: Signal Weather: June 1988 Chapter
16: Woodstock for Climate Change: June 1988
April 1989 Chapter
17: Fragmented World: Fall 1988 Chapter
18: The Great Includer and the Old Engineer: Spring 1989 Chapter
19: Natural Processes: May 1989 Chapter
20: The White House Effect: Fall 1989 Chapter
21: Skunks at the Garden Party: November 1989 Section
v: Afterword: Glass
Bottomed Boats Section
vi: A Note on the Sources Acknowledgements
vii: Acknowledgements

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[Rich's] gripping, depressing, revelatory book makes it clear that not only is climate change a tragedy,
but that it is also a crime - a thing that bad people knowingly made worse, for their personal gain.
John Lanchester New York Times