
Climate Injustice
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Lexile: 1290L
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Fountas and Pinnell level: Z
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Friederike Otto is a climate researcher, physicist, and doctor of philosophy. At the Centre for Environmental Policy at Imperial College London, she researches extreme weather and its effects on society, and she has helped develop the new field of attribution science. She is one of a handful of scientists around the world who can calculate in real time how much climate change has impacted our weather. Her first book, Angry Weather, was published in 2020. In 2021, she was named one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world. She lives in London.
Sarah Pybus has been translating from German for almost twenty years. Her career in literary translation began when she was awarded first prize in the inaugural Nonfiction Translation Competition (German Book Office New York/Geisteswissenschaften International) in 2015. Since then, she has translated crime fiction, non-fiction and photography books, as well as working for universities, tourism companies, media outlets and many others. She translated Friederike Otto's first book, Angry Weather (Greystone Books, 2020), and her translation of Chemistry for Breakfast by Dr Mai Thi Nguyen-Kim (Greystone Books, 2021) was nominated for the 2022 AAAS/Subaru SB&F Prize for Excellence in Science Books in the Young Adult Science Book category.
Content
Chapter 1: Inequality in the Spotlight
Part I?Heat: How Climate Change Is Killing the Disadvantaged Across the World
Chapter 2: A Continent off the Charts (Canada and the U.S.)
Chapter 3: An African Phantom? (Gambia)
Part II?Drought: How Colonialism and Racism Are Hiding Themselves Behind Climate Change
Chapter 4: When Justice Dries Up (South Africa)
Chapter 5: Poverty: The Root of the Crisis (Madagascar)
Part III?Fire: How Climate Litigation Is Pushing Back Against Disinformation
Chapter 6: The End of the Rainforest (Brazil)
Chapter 7: From Pawn to Game Changer (Australia)
Part IV?Flood: How Local Attitudes and Global Politics Are Saving and Destroying Livelihoods
Chapter 8: Guilt and Responsibility (Germany)
Chapter 9: A Country Drowning in Climate Damage (Pakistan)
Chapter 10: What Now?
Acknowledgments
Notes
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