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What If We Stopped Pretending?

By: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland
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The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.

‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’

The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world’s failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?

©2021 Jonathan Franzen (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Environment Essays Nature & Ecology Outdoors & Nature Politics & Government Science Conservation Nonfiction

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Really a useless point of view. Yes, some of the points are valid. Others are just meaningless. The basic point seems to be that it’s impossible to limit global warming to 1.5C, because we won’t change lifestyle, so we shouldn’t even try and focus instead of other smaller fights we could win on the biodiversity front. Oh well, what about ‘and’ instead of ‘vs’ ?

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An interesting idea. But why a full-price book? Will be requesting a refund of my credit.

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