The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg
The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg
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The Climate Book
The Facts and the Solutions

Bestseller

Author: Greta Thunberg

Narrator: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan, Olivia Forrest

Unabridged: 17 hr 12 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin Audio

Published: 02/14/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.

In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?

We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.

* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of climate charts and trends from throughout the book.

About The Author

Greta Thunberg was born in 2003. In August 2018, she started a school strike for the climate outside the Swedish Parliament that has since spread all over the world. She is an activist in Fridays for Future and has spoken at climate rallies across the globe, as well as at the World Economic Forum in Davos, the US Congress, and the United Nations.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kevin on February 08, 2024

A Guide to 21st Century Survival and Beyond… Preamble: --In perhaps my best reading year, it’s quite something for this book to challenge for the top spot: i) #1 topic that haunts me. ii) Broad synthesis (bite-sized essays introducing each topic, 100 in total), balancing accessibility with nuance. iii)......more

Goodreads review by Mr on October 22, 2022

Waiting for some other person, or some other time, is no longer an option. ‘The Climate Book’ really is the one-stop shop for all climate issues. There are contributions from over 100 global experts in their fields, some of which are summaries of their own books, but which address the latest position......more

Goodreads review by MacWithBooksonMountains on November 01, 2024

Apart from the a few articles that Greta reads personally (audiobook version), this is based on various essays and appeals of climate scientist. The book is an encompassing synthesis of essays and articles. It deals with important questions such as whether Fossil fuel giants such as Exxon and Mobile......more

Goodreads review by Els on August 24, 2023

Het klimaatboek. Een initiatief van Greta Thunberg. Waar er in 2018 (toen Greta begon met haar schoolstakingen voor het klimaat) nog vele mensen riepen dat het allemaal wel niet zo een vaart zou lopen kunnen ook zij er, na deze hete herfst, toch niet meer om heen: de wereld, ons huis staat in brand.......more

Goodreads review by Gummih on June 19, 2023

"It is important that we do not blame individuals for what they do or don't do." For those people that come to this book full of misplaced anger and resent I say, read the book. Greta voices many of the complaints that you have of what is wrong with the way climate change is being handled and she is......more

Quotes

“A remarkable contribution to climate literature—and an urgent must-read.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Having curated Yale Climate Connections’ monthly bookshelf collection since early 2015, I was acquainted with over 1,000 books and reports that address climate change in some way . . . The Climate Book is the most ambitious, wide-ranging, and hard-hitting collection I have ever encountered.” —Yale Climate Connections

"The urgency to act now, to kick the addiction to fossil fuels, practically jumps off the page to punch you in the gut. So while not a pleasant read—it’s quite stressful—it’s a book I can’t recommend enough.” —Science News
 
“Stuffed with charts and graphs and photos . . . the book is sure to educate. . . . Hopefully billions of people read The Climate Book and enough of them rise up to demand change.” —Associated Press

“Impressively, in The Climate Book, Thunberg and team—which includes well-known names like Margaret Atwood, George Monbiot, Bill McKibben and Robin Wall Kimmerer—explain and offer action items in 84 compelling, bite-size chapters . . . The cumulative impact on my understanding of the crisis through [the book’s] data, cross-cultural reflections, and paths for step-by-step change became mesmerizing.” —NPR.org

“Impassioned . . . Thunberg gathers essays from scientists, journalists, and activists, starting with lucid and accessible explanations of the science of global warming and its possible effects . . . A comprehensive and articulate shock to the system.” —Publishers Weekly

“An urgent collection of writing by leaders in the fields of science, engineering, history, philosophy, and activism . . . Brilliant and alarming . . . Vital reading for anyone who cares about the planet.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“[A] sweeping compendium of essays contributed by more than 100 academicians, authors, environmentalists, and journalists whose specific professional expertise or profound humanitarian concern amplifies the existing science surrounding this crisis of sustainability and ecology. Yet among this esteemed roster of recognized voices, it is Thunberg’s own eloquence that elevates the collection with introductory essays for each section that convey a sense of urgency that is genuine, grounded, and unimpeachable.” —Booklist (starred review)

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