Description
Product ID: | 9781804291252 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Fighting in a World on Fire |
Subtitle: | The Next Generation's Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future |
Authors: | Author: Andreas Malm |
Page Count: | 272 |
Subjects: | Children’s / Teenage general interest: Nature, animals, the natural world, Natural history (Children’s/Teenage), Children’s / Teenage social topics: Environment, sustainability and green issues, Children’s / Teenage social topics: War and conflict issues, Social issues: environment & green issues (Children's / Teenage), Social issues: war & conflict issues (Children's / Teenage), Interest age: from c 12 years |
Description: | Select Guide Rating An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm's best-selling book by an experienced educator. An argument for bold action to halt climate destruction, adapted for young people from Andreas Malm’s best-selling book Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable. As Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear, solutions offered by adults are far too little, far too late: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won’t halt our reliance on fossil fuels, or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet livable. What kinds of drastic steps are needed? What kind of bold actions can the climate justice movement begin using to bring a stop to climate destruction, and that can be employed alongside existing strategies of mass protest, awareness, and legal appeals? Why does our society consider profit for oil companies more important than the future of young people and the health of our shared environment? In this adaptation of Andreas Malm’s best-selling book on the need for a bolder, more confrontational climate justice movement, these urgent questions are brought to the most important audience of all: those who are growing up in a world on fire. |
Imprint Name: | Verso Books |
Publisher Name: | Verso Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2023-02-07 |