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Dangerous Years
- Climate Change, the Long Emergency, and the Way Forward
- Narrated by: Danny Campbell
- Length: 10 hrs and 34 mins
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This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers the future of civilization in the light of what we know about climate change and related threats. David Orr, an award-winning, internationally recognized leader in the field of sustainability and environmental education, pulls no punches: Even with the Paris Agreement of 2015, Earth systems will not reach a new equilibrium for centuries. Earth is becoming a different planet - more threadbare and less biologically diverse, with more acidic oceans and a hotter, more capricious climate. Furthermore, technology will not solve complex problems of sustainability. Yet we are not fated to destroy the Earth, Orr insists. He imagines sustainability as a quest and a transition built upon robust and durable democratic and economic institutions, as well as changes in heart and mindset. The transition, he writes, is beginning from the bottom up in communities and neighborhoods. He lays out specific principles and priorities to guide us toward enduring harmony between human and natural systems.
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- Morten
- 11-02-17
Moving, terrifying, vitally important!
I found nothing to disagree with in this book. That's sad considering the bleak picture Orr paints of our predicament. Filled with passages of startling, evocative beauty and wisdom.
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- luci ailes
- 12-09-20
Preachy!
Over all the book is very preachy, and as others have said doesn’t say anything new, or really have a point. A lot of the storey seems to just be making statements and doesn’t seem to be going anywhere.
It’s almost like the author doesn’t realise that the reader is going to be on their side, he’s not trying to convince the reader climate change is real and going to fuck us, we know, we want some ideas on how to change it and how to convince others that’s aren’t the type to by a climate change book.
Narration also it’s very good, and adds to the preachy depressing feel.
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- Mr. J. Forsyth
- 19-09-18
Not very insightful
often repetitive without saying anything new or insightful or even inspiring. while I appreciate this book was written 2 years ago and it covers a lot of problems they are problems the public (in my experience, ether actively or passively) are aware of, and Thier consequences too. some examples of attempts to move in a better direction are made but like the problems outlined, not much depth of explanation on how or why this is such a good idea. All valid points however it come across a bit weak and more like a old man dreaming of what could have been in his utopia n dream before we weekend it, no that's sounds far more interesting...
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