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Michael Mann Our fragile moment
how lessons from the earth's past can help us survive the climate crisis
"For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has proven it can manage just fine without human beings. Then came the first proto-humans, who emerged just a little more than 2 million years ago - a fleeting moment in geological time. What is it that made this benevolent moment of ours possible? Ironically, it's the very same thing that now threatens us - climate change. The drying of the tropics during the Pleistocene period created a niche for early hominids, who could hunt prey as forests...
Engels | 306 pagina's | Scribe, London | 2023
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Mike Hulme Climate change isn't everything
liberating climate politics from alarmism
Engels | 200 pagina's | Polity Press, Cambridge, UK | 2023
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Bryan Alexander Universities on fire
higher education in the climate crisis
Engels | 284 pagina's | Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore | 2023
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Thomas K. Rudel Reforesting the earth
the human drivers of forest conservation, restoration, and expansion
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Engels | 274 pagina's | Columbia University Press, New York | 2023
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Levi Sies Kinderen voor het klimaat
ingewikkelde problemen en hun oplossingen simpel uitgelegd
Leer over allerlei dingen die met klimaatverandering te maken hebben, zoals stikstof, fossiele brandstoffen en eten en leer wat je zelf kunt doen in de strijd tegen het klimaatprobleem. Met foto’s en illustraties in kleur. Vanaf ca. 9 jaar.
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Nederlands | 50 pagina's | Uitgeverij Boekscout Yo!, Soest | 2023
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Jay Owens Dust
the modern world in a trillion particles
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Engels | 392 pagina's | Hodder & Stoughton, London | 2023
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Michael Bess Planet in peril
humanity's four greatest challenges and how we can overcome them
"Everything was finally in place. The scientists stood in their observation bunker in the Alamogordo desert, staring through the lenses of their protective glasses at the tower five miles away where the world's first atomic device awaited an electric pulse for detonation. It was 5:29 a.m. on July 19, 1945. The previous evening, one of the smartest persons in the world had decided it was time to lighten things up a bit. Enrico Fermi glanced round at his fellow scientists and said, in his heavy Italian...
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Engels | 440 pagina's | Cambridge University Press, Cambridge | 2023
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