A unique, highly readable approach to the environmental crisis, with alternating chapters outlining the effects on society if left unchecked, and the radical actions we can take to prevent it
Now includes updated sections on COVID-19 and COP26
The environmental emergency is the greatest threat we face. Preventing it will require an unprecedented political and social response. And yet, there is still hope.
Academic, physicist, environmental expert and award-winning science communicator Paul Behrens presents a radical analysis of a civilization on the brink of catastrophe. Setting out the pressing existential threats we face, he writes, in alternating chapters, of what the future could look like at its most pessimistic and hopeful.
In lucid prose, Behrens argues that structural problems need structural solutions, and examines critical areas in which political will is required, including women's education, food and energy security, biodiversity and economics.
The book was printed with two different jackets, to illustrate the unique duality of the author's approach.
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The Best of Times, The Worst of Times
Futures from the Frontiers of Climate Science
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GeopoliticsIndex
Biological SciencesTable of contents
- Prologue • ‘Do you think we’re going to be okay?’
- Population and Progress
- Chapter One • Pessimism
- Chapter Two • Hope
- Energy
- Chapter Three • Pessimism
- Chapter Four • Hope
- Food
- Chapter Five • Pessimism
- Chapter Six • Hope
- Climate
- Chapter Seven • Pessimism
- Chapter Eight • Hope
- Economics
- Chapter Nine • Pessimism
- Chapter Ten • Hope
- Epilogue • Pessimism
- Epilogue • Hope
- Notes
- Acknowledgements
- About the Author
- The Indigo Press
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