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An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"-New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present-and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy. These dispatches from the climate movement around the world feature the voices of organizers like Guam-based lawyer and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists like Dr. Jacquelyn Gill and Dr. Edward Carr; poets like Marshall Islands activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijner; and longtime organizers like The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz. Guided by Rebecca Solnit's typical clear-eyed wisdom and enriched by photographs and quotes, Not Too Late leads readers from discouragement to possibilities, from climate despair to climate hope.… (més)
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Not Too Late, edited by Rebecca Solnit and Thelma Young-Lutunatabua, is an important collection of essays that addresses not just the science of climate change but how important the right frame of mind is in making change.
As far as the science and the politics/big business information, there is not a lot new here. What makes the information stand out and become more relevant is the way the writers discuss what we can, indeed, do and how useful that action can be. The takeaway isn't that climate change is real, or that it is near a tipping point, but that it is NOT too late, that we can make positive change, and that we have to have hope and believe in the possibility. Not an easily swayed hope, a deep goal driven hope. Coupled with the proper actions we can do what the fossil fuel industry doesn't want, save the world.
These essays approach the topic from many angles and many of them will likely speak to you, your situation, and your perspective. Not all, but even the ones that might not touch you as deeply still offer a positive sense of hope for the future, and we need all of that we can get.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in taking up the fight and who has suffered, as most of us have, with periods of crippling frustration and despair that only serves to impede our progress.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss. ( )
An energizing case for hope about the climate, from Rebecca Solnit ("the voice of the resistance"-New York Times), climate activist Thelma Young Lutunatabua, and a chorus of voices calling on us to rise to the moment. Not Too Late is the book for anyone who is despondent, defeatist, or unsure about climate change and seeking answers. As the contributors to this volume make clear, the future will be decided by whether we act in the present-and we must act to counter institutional inertia, fossil fuel interests, and political obduracy. These dispatches from the climate movement around the world feature the voices of organizers like Guam-based lawyer and writer Julian Aguon; climate scientists like Dr. Jacquelyn Gill and Dr. Edward Carr; poets like Marshall Islands activist Kathy Jetnil-Kijner; and longtime organizers like The Tyranny of Oil author Antonia Juhasz. Guided by Rebecca Solnit's typical clear-eyed wisdom and enriched by photographs and quotes, Not Too Late leads readers from discouragement to possibilities, from climate despair to climate hope.
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As far as the science and the politics/big business information, there is not a lot new here. What makes the information stand out and become more relevant is the way the writers discuss what we can, indeed, do and how useful that action can be. The takeaway isn't that climate change is real, or that it is near a tipping point, but that it is NOT too late, that we can make positive change, and that we have to have hope and believe in the possibility. Not an easily swayed hope, a deep goal driven hope. Coupled with the proper actions we can do what the fossil fuel industry doesn't want, save the world.
These essays approach the topic from many angles and many of them will likely speak to you, your situation, and your perspective. Not all, but even the ones that might not touch you as deeply still offer a positive sense of hope for the future, and we need all of that we can get.
Highly recommended for anyone interested in taking up the fight and who has suffered, as most of us have, with periods of crippling frustration and despair that only serves to impede our progress.
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via Edelweiss. (