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Losing Earth

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18 April 2019
256 pages
9781529015850
Imprint: Picador

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[Rich's] gripping, depressing, revelatory book makes it clear that not only is climate change a tragedy,
but that it is also a crime
— a thing that bad people knowingly made worse, for their personal gain.

The excellent and appalling Losing Earth by Nathaniel Rich describes how close we came in the 70s to dealing with the causes of global warming and how US big business & Reaganite politicians in the 80s ensured it didn’t happen. Read it.
Rich brilliantly relates the story of how, in 1979 . . . policymakers [were alerted] to the existential threat, only to see climate treaties fail in a welter of ‘profit over planet’ a decade later. An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved.
To change the future, we must first understand our past, and Losing Earth is a crucial part of that when it comes to the environmental battles we’re facing.