Now or Never
Why We Must Act Now to End Climate Change and Create a Sustainable Future
Published on 1. September 2018
176 pages
978-0-8021-9896-9 (ISBN)
Description
A forceful call to climate change action and a pragmatic roadmap toward sustainability from the internationally acclaimed author of
The Weather Makers
.
Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail. He explores everything from techniques for storing the carbon that dead plants release into the earth to the fragile balancing act between energy demands and food supply in India and China, from carbon-trading schemes in South America to a collaboration between a Danish wind-energy company and an automobile manufacturer that may produce a viable electric car and end the reign of big oil.
Now or Never is a powerful, thought-provoking, and essential book about the most urgent issue of our time. It burns with Flannery's characteristic mix of passion, scientific precision, and "offhand interdisciplinary brilliance" ( Entertainment Weekly).
"Shocking... [Flannery] writes for a general audience with passion and clarity." -Jim Hansen
Utilizing the most up-to-the-minute data available, Tim Flannery offers a guided tour of the environmental challenges we face and their potential solutions in both the big picture and in specific detail. He explores everything from techniques for storing the carbon that dead plants release into the earth to the fragile balancing act between energy demands and food supply in India and China, from carbon-trading schemes in South America to a collaboration between a Danish wind-energy company and an automobile manufacturer that may produce a viable electric car and end the reign of big oil.
Now or Never is a powerful, thought-provoking, and essential book about the most urgent issue of our time. It burns with Flannery's characteristic mix of passion, scientific precision, and "offhand interdisciplinary brilliance" ( Entertainment Weekly).
"Shocking... [Flannery] writes for a general audience with passion and clarity." -Jim Hansen
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Tim Flannery is one of the most celebrated scientists of our time. His landmark bestseller
The Weather Makers, which sold one hundred-fifty thousand copies in America and was translated into twenty-four languages internationally, was embraced by readers and endorsed by policy makers, scientists, and energy industry executives around the world. He is Chairman of the Copenhagen Climate Council and acts as a judge (along with Al Gore, James Hansen, James Lovelock, and Crispin Tickell) for Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Earth Challenge. He was named Australian of the Year in 2007 and is a professor at Macquarie University in Sydney.
Content
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Now or Never
- In the Year Four Billion
- The Climate Problem
- A New Dark Age?
- The Coal Conundrum
- America's New Leadership
- Trees for Security
- Revolution in the Feedlot
- Animal Solutions
- Farm-Based Ecological Efficiency
- The Age of Sustainability?
- Notes
- Responses
- Bill McKibben
- Richard Branson
- Peter Singer
- Fred Krupp and Peter Goldmark
- Gwynne Dyer
- Alanna Mitchell
- Reply
- Tim Flannery
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