Restore Our Earth
What will happen to our planet if we don't care for it? We all need a healthy Earth to support our jobs, livelihoods, health, and happiness. Find out how you can take action to restore our Earth with these books!
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster
In How to Avoid A Climate Disaster, Bill Gates shares a wide-ranging, practical—and accessible—plan for how the world can get to zero greenhouse gas emissions in time to avoid a climate catastrophe. With the help of experts in the fields of physics, chemistry, biology, engineering, political science, and finance, Bill Gates shows readers what must be done in order to stop the planet’s slide to certain environmental disaster. This is a must-read for individuals who want to have a better understanding of climate change, and what we can do to prevent it!
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What are the climate costs of visiting loved ones overseas? How do you find low-carbon love on Tinder? Combining her scientific expertise and her lived, personal experience in a way that seems fresh and deeply urgent, climate scientist Dr. Kimberly Nicholas shows how individuals can make a difference in solving the climate crisis—by making small changes, starting with our own lives. This is a hopeful, clear-eyed, and hilarious guide to climate change.
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Every year, the world produces more than 300 million tons of plastic. These products will never break down and will endlessly pollute our oceans, air, land, and food chain. But the good news is that there are many steps, small and large, that we can take to change our plastic-using habits. This book offers more than 100 suggestions to reduce your plastic consumption! With tips on how to incorporate alternatives to plastic wrap, take-out containers and even commercial cosmetic products, you can finally end your relationship with plastic for good.
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Are paper bags always more environmentally friendly than plastic? How much better for the planet are electric cars? Which saves more water—using the dishwasher or washing up by hand? We all want to do the right thing for the planet, but with so many factors at play it can be difficult to work out which is the greenest way. With answers to everyday green-living questions, Is it really green? cuts through the confusion and gives you the facts. Get to the heart of each eco-conundrum and make informed decisions to reduce your ecological footprint today!
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At just fifteen, Greta Thunberg became one of today's most prominent climate change activists—her impassioned calls for action on global warming have captured hearts and minds around the world. In this inspiring interview, Thunberg discusses the irrefutable facts surrounding climate change, the need to hold political figures and lawmakers accountable, and why every person has the power to make a difference. Immovable in her mission, Thunberg's story is a testament to the power of young voices. Here is proof that, when guided by truth and perseverance, anyone can create meaningful change.
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The Fragile Earth tells the story of climate change—its past, present, and future—taking readers from Greenland to the Great Plains, and into both laboratories and rainforests. It features some of the best writing on global warming from the last three decades, including Bill McKibben's seminal essay 'The End of Nature', the first piece to popularize both the science and politics of climate change for a general audience. Urgent, yet passionate, this book promises to bring light to the emergencies of our age.
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What If We Stopped Pretending?
'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.' In this book, Jonathan Franzen confronts the world's failure to avert destabilising climate change. The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending. It's time to think—what can we do next?
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We are living in a climate emergency. But how much worse could it get? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas charts the most likely consequences of global heating in this book. From vast wildfires to world-wide starvation and finally, mass extinction—the consequences are escalating, and time is running out. This book must not be ignored. It really is our final warning.
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'Why rebel? Because our footprint on the Earth has never mattered more than now. How we treat it, in the spirit of gift or of theft, has never been more important.' Passionate and beautifully written, Why Rebel is a blazing call-to-arms for readers to take action and protect our one and only planet. Be inspired by this powerful book today!
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Climate change: it is arguably the most urgent and consequential issue humankind has ever faced. How we address it for the next thirty years will determine the kind of world we will live in and will bequeath to our children and to theirs. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us, in no uncertain terms, what governments, corporations, and each of us can and must do to fend off disaster. Bold and unabashed, this book is an important wake-up call in the times we live in.
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