{"product_id":"9780374191337","title":"Losing Earth : A Recent History","description":"\u003cstrong\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Nathaniel Rich\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is their story, and ours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003edevoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich’s groundbreaking chronicle of that decade, which became an instant journalistic phenomenon—the subject of news coverage, editorials, and conversations all over the world. In its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age, it made vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNow expanded into book form, \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry’s coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLike John Hersey’s \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e and Jonathan Schell’s \u003ci\u003eThe Fate of the Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is the rarest of achievements: a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved.\" —\u003cb\u003eBarbara Kiser, \u003ci\u003eNature\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Reading like a Greek tragedy, \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth \u003c\/i\u003eshows how close we came to making the right choices — if it weren't for our darker angels.” —\u003cb\u003eAdam Frank, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e.org\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Exceedingly well-written . . . a must-read handbook for everyone concerned about our planet's future . . . \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth \u003c\/i\u003eis eloquent, devastating, and crucial.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e (starred review)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"A maddening book full of what-ifs and the haunting suspicion that if treated as a political problem and not as a matter of life and death, climate change will cook everyone’s geese.\" —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This deeply researched, deeply felt book is an essential addition to the canon of climate change literature. Others have documented where we are, and speculated about where we might be headed, but the story of how we got here is perhaps the most important one to be told, because it is both a cautionary tale and an unfinished one. Reading this book, I could not help but imagine my children one day reading a future edition, which will include the story of my generation's response to what we knew.\" —\u003cb\u003eJonathan Safran Foer, author of \u003ci\u003eExtremely Loud and Incredibly Close\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“How to explain the mess we’re in? Nathaniel Rich recounts how a crucial decade was squandered. \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth \u003c\/i\u003eis an important contribution to the record of our heedless age.”\u003cbr\u003e—\u003cb\u003eElizabeth Kolbert, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Sixth Extinction\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Combining the dramatic immediacy of a police procedural with the urgency of prophecy, Nathaniel Rich's provocative book chronicles the failure of our scientific and political leaders to act to halt the climate apocalypse when they appeared on the verge of doing so, and casts the triumph of denial as the defining moral crisis for humankind.\" —\u003cb\u003ePhilip Gourevitch, author of \u003ci\u003eWe Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“In this book, Nathaniel Rich demonstrates exquisitely how shallow debate of a deep problem—the planetary scale and civilizational consequences of climate change—exacerbates the problem. We are still a long way from thinking about climate change in the multi-century frame we need to deal with it realistically. Getting there will be a new skill for humanity, if we get there.” —\u003cb\u003eStewart Brand, author of \u003ci\u003eWhole Earth Discipline\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"[Nathaniel] Rich has a talent for translating a complicated issue into a gripping story. And like any effective storyteller, he places compelling characters in the foreground.\"\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e -LitHub\u003cbr\u003e  \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLong-listed Choice Outstanding Academic Title (2019)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9780374191337\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"MCD","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":40688663953614,"sku":"9780374191337","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/getimage_5b79d458-7a3e-43e7-926b-83cff9bdce77.jpg?v=1640319193","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9780374191337","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}