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Losing Earth
Losing Earth: A Recent History | Nathaniel Rich
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By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight. Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. Like John Hersey’s Hiroshima and Jonathan Schell’s The Fate of the Earth, Losing Earth is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.
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RamsFan1963
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"To See The Right And Not To Do It Is Cowardice" - Confucius

This book pissed me off!! I kept saying why over and over. Why hasn't the US government done anything in the last 40+ years to try to fix this problem? Why are they still trying to deny the truth when now it's way to late to do anything but ride out the inevitable hellstorm that's coming? I look at the present admin, not only not trying to save the environment, but actively trying ??

RamsFan1963 To turn the country into one huge concrete and asphalt shopping center, that looks out on and endless sea of coal smokestacks and oil rigs. The only green that will be left is Trump's goddamned precious golf courses 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 4💥💥💥💥 1/2 5y
KathyWheeler This is being considered for our Common Read — I read to get on the ball and read it. 5y
Redwritinghood 😔 5y
jen_the_scribe It's all about money for them. They're not realizing that money won't matter in the end, for them or anyone else. Their ignorance is confounding. 5y
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Emilymdxn
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Great and horrible. A lot of books about climate change have made me angry and frustrated, but hearing so much detail about the early days of understanding global heating when so much could still have been saved and how close the US and other countries came to making meaningful change that early on broke my heart.

Freespirit It's hard to comprehend how this has been dealt with..the denial and ignorance continues😬 5y
CarolynM @Freespirit Did you see Peter Fitzsimons's column in the SMH this morning? Excellent point, I thought. 5y
Freespirit @CarolynM I will look out for it.. I enjoy his writing! 5y
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