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The #1 New York Times bestseller by Time's 2019 Person of the Year
"Greta Thunberg is already one of our planet's greatest advocates."
-Barack Obama The groundbreaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the
young climate activist who has become the voice of a generation,
including her historic address to the United Nations In August 2018
a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go
to school one day in order to protest the climate crisis. Her
actions sparked a global movement, inspiring millions of students
to go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and
earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. No One Is Too Small to
Make A Difference brings you Greta in her own words, for the first
time. Collecting her speeches that have made history across the
globe, from the United Nations to Capitol Hill and mass street
protests, her book is a rallying cry for why we must all wake up
and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how powerless we
feel. Our future depends upon it.
*A Times, Financial Times, Observer and Nature Book of the Year* We
still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the
world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for
making it happen. You might think it's an impossible task: secure a
safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen,
against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the
science before it's too late. In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg
has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts -
geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers,
economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and
indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to
combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories
of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world,
revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of
our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of
hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And
if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could
we do collectively if we tried? We are alive at the most decisive
time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly
impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.
The history-making, ground-breaking speeches of Greta Thunberg, the
young activist who has become the voice of a generation 'Everything
needs to change. And it has to start today' In August 2018 a
fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg, decided not to go to
school one day. Her actions ended up sparking a global movement for
action against the climate crisis, inspiring millions of pupils to
go on strike for our planet, forcing governments to listen, and
earning her a Nobel Peace Prize nomination. This book brings you
Greta in her own words, for the first time. Collecting her speeches
that have made history across Europe, from the UN to mass street
protests, No One Is Too Small to Make A Difference is a rallying
cry for why we must all wake up and fight to protect the living
planet, no matter how powerless we feel. Our future depends upon
it.
"A must-read ecological message of hope . . . Everyone with an
interest in the future of this planet should read this book."
--David Mitchell, The Guardian When climate activist Greta Thunberg
was eleven, her parents Malena and Svante, and her little sister
Beata, were facing a crisis in their own home. Greta had stopped
eating and speaking, and her mother and father had reconfigured
their lives to care for her. Desperate and searching for answers,
her parents discovered what was at the heart of Greta's distress:
her imperiled future on a rapidly heating planet. Steered by
Greta's determination to understand the truth and generate change,
they began to see the deep connections between their own suffering
and the planet's. Written by a remarkable family and told through
the voice of an iconoclastic mother, Our House Is on Fire is the
story of how they fought their problems at home by taking global
action. And it is the story of how Greta decided to go on strike
from school, igniting a worldwide rebellion.
The 1963 Children's March in Birmingham, Alabama. Tiananmen Square,
1989. The 2016 Dakota Access Pipeline protests. March for Our
Lives, and School Strike for Climate. What do all these social
justice movements have in common? They were led by passionate,
informed, engaged young people. Jamie Margolin has been organizing
and protesting since she was fourteen years old. Now the co-leader
of a global climate action movement, she knows better than most how
powerful a young person can be. You don't have to be able to vote
or hold positions of power to change the world. In Youth to Power,
Jamie presents the essential guide to changemaking, with advice on
writing and pitching op-eds, organizing successful events and
peaceful protests, time management as a student activist, utilizing
social media and traditional media to spread a message, and
sustaining long-term action. She features interviews with prominent
young activists including Tokata Iron Eyes of the #NoDAPL movement
and Nupol Kiazolu of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, who give
guidance on handling backlash, keeping your mental health a
priority, and how to avoid getting taken advantage of. Jamie walks
readers through every step of what effective, healthy,
intersectional activism looks like. Young people have a lot to say.
Youth to Power gives you the tools to raise your voice.
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Green Ideas Slipcase (Paperback)
Greta Thunberg, Naomi Klein, Timothy Morton, George Monbiot, Bill McKibben, …
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In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the
environmental movement - now in one complete set Over the past 75
years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living
planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the
world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have
endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental
movement today. From art, literature, food and gardening, to
technology, economics, politics and ethics, each of these short
books deepens our sense of our place in nature; each is a seed from
which a bold activism can grow. Together, they show the richness of
environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner,
greener world.
In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the
environmental movement. No One is Too Small to Make a Difference
collects Greta Thunberg's history-making speeches, from addresses
at climate rallies around the world audiences at the UN, the World
Economic Forum, and the British Parliament. Over the past 75 years,
a new canon has emerged. As life on Earth has become irrevocably
altered by humans, visionary thinkers around the world have raised
their voices to defend the planet, and affirm our place at the
heart of its restoration. Their words have endured through the
decades, becoming the classics of a movement. Together, these books
show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a
fairer, saner, greener world.
On the brink of a critical moment in human history, this book
presents a vision of "planetary stewardship" - a rethinking of our
relationship with our planet - and plots a new course for our
future. The authors, whose work is the subject of a new Netflix
documentary released in summer 2021 and narrated by Sir David
Attenborough, reveal the full scale of the planetary emergency we
face - but also how we can stabilise Earth's life support system.
The necessary change is within our power if we act now. In 2009,
scientists identified nine planetary boundaries that keep Earth
stable, ranging from biodiversity to ozone. Beyond these boundaries
lurk tipping points. To stop short of these tipping points, the
2020s must see the fastest economic transition in history. This
book demonstrates how societies are reaching positive tipping
points that make this transition possible: Activism groups such as
Extinction Rebellion, or the schoolchildren inspired by Greta
Thunberg demand political action; countries are committing to
eliminating greenhouse gas emissions; and one tipping point has
even already passed - the price of clean energy has dropped below
that of fossil fuels. Inside the pages of this scientifically-led
publication, world-leading climate-change experts explain the
greatest crisis humanity has ever faced. - Expert-authored text in
an accessible style for both adults, and children ages 14+ - A
breakdown of the 9 planetary boundaries for relative stability on
Earth, ranging from biodiversity to the ozone layer - An
exploration of climate "tipping points" - good and bad - Stunning
infographics and images visualising the problems and solutions to
climate change - Contains detailed and unique images of Earth
produced by Globaia, the world's leading visualisers of human
impact
Young people around the world have been following the example of
Greta Thunberg and demonstrating for climate protection as part of
'Fridays for Future'. Week after week since 2018, they have called
emphatically for political ramifications in order to finally stop
the dangerous effects of global climate change. The photographer
Andrea Baumgartl (*1965) has accompanied these demonstrations from
the very beginning. At close proximity and with great empathy, she
shows the determination with which young people are fighting
self-confidently for their future. Her new book is a highly
topical, moving, and rousing contemporary document. Text in English
and German.
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination
brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink This is the
story of a happy family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be
the same again. Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking
nightmare as their eleven-year-old daughter Greta stopped speaking
and eating, and her younger sister struggled to cope. They
desperately searched for answers, and began to see how their
children's suffering reached far beyond medical diagnoses. This
crisis was not theirs alone: they were burned-out people on a
burned-out planet. And so they decided to act. Our House is on Fire
shows how, amid forces that tried to silence them, one family found
ways to strengthen, heal, and gain courage from the love they had
for each other - and for the living world. It is a parable of hope
and determination in an emergency that affects us all.
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination
brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink 'Urgent, lucid,
courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of a
saner world' David Mitchell, Guardian This is the story of a happy
family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again.
Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking nightmare as their
eleven-year-old daughter Greta stopped speaking and eating, and her
younger sister struggled to cope. They desperately searched for
answers, and began to see how their children's suffering reached
far beyond medical diagnoses. This crisis was not theirs alone:
they were burned-out people on a burned-out planet. And so they
decided to act. Our House is on Fire shows how, amid forces that
tried to silence them, one family found ways to strengthen, heal,
and gain courage from the love they had for each other - and for
the living world. It is a parable of hope and determination in an
emergency that affects us all.
The profoundly moving story of how love, courage and determination
brought Greta Thunberg's family back from the brink 'Urgent, lucid,
courageous ... a must-read message of hope ... It is a glimpse of a
saner world' David Mitchell, Guardian This is the story of a happy
family whose life suddenly fell apart, never to be the same again.
Of two devoted parents plunged into a waking nightmare as their
eleven-year-old daughter Greta stopped speaking and eating, and her
younger sister struggled to cope. They desperately searched for
answers, and began to see how their children's suffering reached
far beyond medical diagnoses. This crisis was not theirs alone:
they were burned-out people on a burned-out planet. And so they
decided to act. Our House is on Fire shows how, amid forces that
tried to silence them, one family found ways to strengthen, heal,
and gain courage from the love they had for each other - and for
the living world. It is a parable of hope and determination in an
emergency that affects us all.
A new expanded and illustrated edition of the history-making
speeches of Greta Thunberg, the young activist who has become the
voice of a generation 'We are the change and change is coming' In
August 2018 a fifteen-year-old Swedish girl, Greta Thunberg,
decided not to go to school one day. A year later, she was joined
in her strike by over seven million people around the world. This
is the record of a game-changing year in the fight against the
climate crisis. Collecting the speeches that sparked a global
movement, and iconic images of those who made it happen, No One Is
Too Small to Make A Difference is a rallying cry for why we must
all wake up and fight to protect the living planet, no matter how
powerless we feel. Our future depends upon it. With new speeches
from Vienna, Paris, New York and Montreal
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