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Climate Change for Football Fans

Autor James Atkins Ilustrat de David Mostyn
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2010
Climate change is a hot topic but getting people interested in it and explaining it to them is hard. This book makes it interesting. As the author says: This book is about climate change policy, one of the most boring topics in the world. So it also includes stuff about football, which is one of the most interesting subjects in the world. It's written as a series of conversations between Joe, a football-mad Burnley FC fan, and Professor Igor who's obsessed with climate change. Joe thinks worrying about climate change is a waste of time, and Igor can't understand why 22 grown men would put on shorts and run around after a ball. It's funny, written in the earthy and irreverent language of the football fan. It works as a story, with good cartoon illustrations. But the serious sub-text about climate change also works -- education by stealth. At the back of the book there is a Notes section, summarizing all the serious climate-change material. This lets the reader look up the important messages in the book without having to stand on the terraces. The book has broad appeal: girlfriends who want to improve their football-mad boyfriends, teachers who wish to motivate reluctant students with the football tag, people who just enjoy an unusual read, and of course those interested in the economics and science of climate change. It is unique and a typical book from an independent press -- a zany title that's perfect for Christmas.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781906860356
ISBN-10: 1906860351
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 15 illustrations
Dimensiuni: 127 x 196 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.25 kg
Editura: Uit Cambridge Ltd.

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Notă biografică

James Atkins is Chairman of Vertis Environmental Finance, an emissions trading company in Hungary which he established in 1998. He studied modern languages at Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen. Originally from Cumbria, he has lived in Budapest since 1995. He supports Manchester United, and is married with two children. He writes: "I have been feeding off climate policy for over 10 years, having set up an emissions trading company, Vertis Environmental Finance, Hungary. We trade carbon credits in an artificial market created by the European Commission which aims to encourage industrial companies to reduce their carbon dioxide emissions. During this time I have thought a lot about environmental problems and climate change and what governments and individuals can do about them. I have also written about this in articles and in my blog The Bustard 'www.thebustard.blogspot.com' "In 2009 a friend suggested that I compile the blog entries into a book in order to expand the readership. Not wanting to repeat what had already been written I started reading around the topic. But I found I kept nodding off or flicking idly to the BBC sport website. Books on climate change are the literary equivalent of a nil-nil draw in a lower division on a wet day. Unlikely to attract much of a crowd. Few books on climate change are readable or enjoyable, despite it being an extremely important topic. So I scrapped what I had written and started trying to find a way of making the book more entertaining. Partly through putting dialogue and humour in it, and partly through introducing the parallel of a more interesting subject."

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Football supporters will never see the world in the same way after reading this book. Professor David JC MacKay Author of Sustainable Energy - without the hot air Even those flawed souls who find climate change more engaging than football will enjoy this quirky take on how to save the planet. Siobhan Parkinson Author and Ireland's Laureate for Children's Literature James Atkins has done the impossible by making the arcane jargon-rich reality of climate policy & science accessible, understandable and fun. Paul Clements-Hunt Head, United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative