Riders on the Storm : The Climate Crisis and the Survival of Being

Longlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2021 for Writing on Global ConservationClimate change is the greatest challenge to humankind today.While the coronavirus sheds a light on the vulnerability ofour interconnected world, the effects of global warming willbe permanent, indeed catastrophic, without a massive shiftin human behaviour.Writer, scholar and broadcaster Alastair McIntosh sumsup the present knowledge and shows that conventionalsolutions are not enough. In rejecting the blind alleys ofclimate change denial, exaggeration and false optimism, heoffers a scintillating discussion of ways forward. Weavingtogether science, politics, psychology and spirituality, thisguide examines what it takes to make us riders on the storm. [Publisher's text]

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