Now or Never
A Sustainable Future for Australia?
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- $10.99
Publisher Description
Now or Never is an essential book about the most urgent issue of our time: climate change.Tim Flannery begins by discussing the idea of sustainability, and asks whether humanity can rise to this challenge. He brings to life the latest climate science and its implications. And he discusses in fascinating detail three potential climate-change solutions, with special reference to Australia.
Brilliant and terrifying, Now or Never is a call to arms by Australia's leading thinker and writer on the natural world.
This edition includes nine responses to Now or Never by leading figures, and Flannery's reply. Writers include Peter Cosier, Richard Branson, David Foster, Ian Lowe, Barrie Pittock and Gwynne Dyer.
"With scientific gravitas, complemented by the skilful use of layman's language, Tim Flannery paints a serious picture of the planet's future."—Richard Branson.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Flannery (The Weather Makers) makes a valuable contribution to global warming literature with this slim and eloquent brief that challenges readers to dispense with the dangerous notion that "the earth was made for us" a convenient extrapolation of social Darwinism that the author argues is used to justify reckless treatment of the environment and smacks of embarrassing impracticality and myopia. He states that humans were made to shepherd the Earth through environmental crises and contribute to the efficiency of its massive metabolism; humans are the brains of this complex system and must make bold choices to either save the corpus totum or destroy it. A re-evaluation of human purpose on Earth is required, Flannery maintains, with a true understanding of sustainability removed from trendy "green" marketing connotations. Flannery's compelling arguments and accessible language will move the passive bystander, persuade the skeptic and rouse the activist.
