Losing Earth
18 April 2019Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
‘Nathaniel Rich’s account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn’t want to.’ – Observer
By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change – what was happening, why it was happening, and...
Details
18 April 2019256 pages
9781529015850Imprint: Picador
Reviews
[Rich's] gripping, depressing, revelatory book makes it clear that not only is climate change a tragedy,
John Lanchester, New York Times
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.John Simpson (on Twitter)
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.Nature
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.Stylist
