How to Fix a Broken Planet
Advice for Surviving the 21st Century
(Sprache: Englisch)
The ten catastrophic risks that threaten human civilisation and the planet, and advice on how to overcome or mitigate them.
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The ten catastrophic risks that threaten human civilisation and the planet, and advice on how to overcome or mitigate them.
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Do you want to help save human civilisation? If so, this book is for you. How to Fix a Broken Planet describes the ten catastrophic risks that menace human civilisation and our planet, and what we can all do to overcome or mitigate them. It explains what must be done globally to avert each megathreat, and what each of us can do in our own lives to help preserve a habitable world. It offers the first truly integrated world plan-of-action for a more sustainable human society - and fresh hope. A must-read for anyone seeking sound practical advice on what citizens, governments, companies, and community groups can do to safeguard our future.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „How to Fix a Broken Planet “
Preface; 1. Existential emergency; 2. Extinction ...or survival?; 3. Resources for living; 4. Nuclear awakening; 5. Cooling Earth; 6. Clean up the planet; 7. Preventing pandemics; 8. Renewable food; 9. 'One child fewer'; 10. Healing technological mayhem; 11. Ending the age of deceit; 12. Who are we, really?; 13. An Earth Standard Currency; 14. Tools for repairing the Earth; 15. Think like a human, act like a species; Notes; Index.
Autoren-Porträt von Julian Cribb
Julian Cribb AM is an Australian author and science communicator. His career includes appointments as scientific editor for The Australian newspaper, director of national awareness for the Australian Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), editor of several newspapers, member of numerous scientific boards and advisory panels, and president of national professional bodies for agricultural journalism and science communication. His published work includes over 9000 articles, 3000 science media releases and ten books. He has received thirty-two awards for journalism. His previous books include Earth Detox (2021), Food or War (2019), Poisoned Planet (2014), and The Coming Famine (2010). As a science writer and a grandparent, Julian Cribb is deeply concerned at the existential emergency facing humanity, and his latest books map hopeful pathways out of our predicament.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Julian Cribb
- 2023, 130 Seiten, Maße: 13 x 21,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Cambridge University Press
- ISBN-10: 1009333410
- ISBN-13: 9781009333412
- Erscheinungsdatum: 29.12.2022
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
'Julian Cribb's pathbreaking new book, How to Fix a Broken Planet, looks squarely at the existential threats to our life-support systems and suggests how individuals and governments should take remedial action. I only hope people will read him and act.' Paul Ehrlich, author of The Annihilation of Nature
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