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Sophie's Planet: A Search for Truth About Our Remarkable Home Planet and Its Future

Autor James Hansen
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 iul 2020
In a series of letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, the world's leading climatologist shows how it is still possible to ensure that young people inherit a clean world.Dr. James Hansen the single most credible scientific voice worldwide on the issue of global warming. In his celebrated first book,Storms of My Grandchildren, he presented the full truth about climate change, a truth born out in the years since as climate disasters continue to ravage our world. The urgency is apparent; the response so far, inadequate. But Hansen remains an optimist. In a series of moving and insightful letters to his granddaughter, Sophie, he speaks about the fight to preserve life on the planet, a fight that for her generation will be as personal as it is political-as much about policy actions as about the right of the Monarch, Sophie's favorite butterfly, to live and thrive on this earth.Sophie's Planetturns toward solutions, asking: How can we connect the dots from climate observations to necessary policies? What can be done to preserve our planet for the young people who will follow us? And how can we make the climate story clear to these young people, to prepare them for what will be one of their generation's central struggles: the fight for environmental justice?Hansen's conversations with Sophie offer a fascinating glimpse behind the scenes of a life spent at the highest levels of environmental research and policy-including the realms where dark motives prevail-as well as a moving clarion call for the future of the climate change fight.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781632868947
ISBN-10: 1632868946
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: B&W illustrations throughout
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 mm
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Publishing
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Caracteristici

JAMES HANSEN AND SOPHIE IN THE NEWS: Jim has joined a group of young people who are in the process of suing the US government on behalf of children (his granddaughter Sophie is party to the suit) to protect their rights to inherit a clean world. A documentary feature film is being made about Jim and Sophie and the suit. In November of 2016, a district Judge issued an order denying the US govt and fossil fuel industry's motions to dismiss. The case is headed to trial, and news of it will unfold around publication.

Notă biografică

Dr. James Hansenis best known for bringing global warming to the world's attention in the 1980s, when he first testified before Congress. An adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University, he directed the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. His background in space and earth sciences allows a broad perspective on the status and prospects of our home planet. He is the author ofStorms of My Grandchildren.

Recenzii

The best, most informative, brilliantly written book on general climate science I've ever read
Hansen gives us the opportunity to watch a scientist who is sick of silence and compromise . offer up the fruits of four-plus decades of inquiry and ingenuity . . . An urgent book.
The most comprehensible, realistic, and courageous call to prevent climate change yet.
With urgency and authority, Hansen urges readers to speak out . . . to protect the Earth from calamity for the sake of their children and grandchildren.