Nature
Climate Change
Heat
€27.00
How to stop the planet
burning
George Monbiot
We all know that climate change is
the greatest problem facing our world - it`s being rammed
home by new evidence every day. But does that mean the problem
is now too big to deal with? Or can we solve it? In HEAT,
George Monbiot, one of the world`s leading environmental activists
proves, with passion and rigorous analysis, that there is
a way. It now seems certain that we need a 90% cut in our
emissions within 25 years if we are to stop ourselves reaching
the point where the `climate feedback` becomes unstoppable,
and our world becomes largely uninhabitable.
For the first time, this book explains
how this cut could be achieved. Combining his unique knowledge
of political campaigning and environmental science, Monbiot
analyses the possibilities and pitfalls of energy efficiency,
nuclear power, renewable resources and new technologies, and
applies them to our everyday lives, measuring the cuts that
can be made. Is individual abstinence and care futile when
others are lighting their houses with a million bulbs every
Christmas? And internationally, how much can ever be done
when there is still a powerful lobby of climate change deniers
influencing governments and businesses around the world? HEAT
shows us that real change can be effected now by putting pressure
on those in a position to really make a difference. Radical,
pragmatic and totally surprising, this book reveals how we
can reconcile our demands for comfort, prosperity and peace
with the increasingly pressing need to prevent us destroying
our future.
About the Author
A few years ago, George Monbiot was persona
non grata in seven countries and had a life sentence in absentia
in Indonesia. He is now a bestselling author, columnist for
the Guardian and Visiting Professor at the School of the Built
Environment at Oxford Brookes University. In 1995 Nelson Mandela
presented him with a United Nations Global 500 Award for outstanding
environmental achievement. He has been named by the Evening
Standard as one of the 25 most influential people in Britain,
and by the Independent on Sunday as one of the 40 international
prophets of the 21st Century. His books include Captive State:
the Corporate Takeover of Britain and, most recently, The
Age of Consent: A Manifesto for a New World Order.
He has held visiting fellowships or professorships
at the universities of Oxford (environmental policy), Bristol
(philosophy), Keele (politics) and East London (environmental
science). His weekly column for the Guardian is syndicated
in the US, France, Italy, Canada, Australia, India, Pakistan,
Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Holland, Belgium and Russia, and
he appears frequently on radio and television. His website,
www.monbiot.com, is the world`s seventh-ranked comment site
and holds an archive of his articles.
304pp 2006 Hbk 135x216
In
Katrina`s Wake €30.00
Portraits of Loss from an
Unnatural Disaster
Susan Zakin, Bill McKibben,
Chris Jordan (Ill)
While many may argue whether the devastation of hurricane
Katrina was the direct or indirect result of global warming,
infrastructural neglect, inadequate preparation, or an incompetent
governmental response, nobody will deny the heartbreak it
wrought, the homes, businesses, and history washed away, the
landscape uprooted, or the lives lost.
Renowned photographer Chris Jordan went
on assignment—his own—to capture the tragedy of
the aftermath of this, the greatest natural disaster in the
history of the United States. In Katrina`s Wake, his series
of 50 photographs, layer, the horror of ruin with the uncanny
beauty of nature, even in its most savage incarnation. His
images show how the remnants of a place—from Mardi Gras
beads to church pews, from computer stations to swing sets—recall
the essence of a place.
Essays by Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Royte,
and Susan Zakin explore the causes and effects of global warming,
noting that we are all responsible for the future of our planet.
Chris Jordan is a photographer in Seattle,
Washington.
96pp 2006 Hbk 305x273 |
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