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The Future Earth

A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming

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The Future Earth

By: Eric Holthaus
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
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The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows listeners how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.

The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus (“the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology” - Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face.

  • What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade?
  • What could living in a city look like in 2030?
  • How could the world operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States?

This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.

©2020 Eric Holthaus (P)2020 HarperAudio
Environment Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Political Science Politics & Government Science Conservation Sustainability Future Earth

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The book starts in the first few chapters well, highlighting a serious issue and showing what problems need to be addressed. Motivational aspects to the 'call to arms' and do more for our part in causing climate change and what we can do.

As soon as it gets to the predictions of the future and 'radical' suggestions it feels like someone on hallucinogenics in the woods is having a bad trip and spewing their disjointed and removed from reality thoughts on to the pages. Clearly a left-wing activist with little outside space for opinions.

I recommend listening until the Chapters beginning with the 2020s-2030s and then removing from the library.

Uninformative and Delusional

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