'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, World Affairs Editor
of BBC NewsBy 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's groundbreaking
account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to
signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil
fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism -
is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York
Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's
Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant,
in-demand expert and speaker.
A major movie deal is already in
place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation. In
the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for
what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able
to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what
those past failures mean for us at the beginning of the twenty-first
century.
It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical
missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we
got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.
Losing Earth : The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change - Nathaniel Rich
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