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H is for Hope

Climate Change from A to Z
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Climate change resists narrative – and yet we must see clearly what’s happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act. In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history and future of climate change... Read More
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With twenty-six dazzling, interwoven pieces – one for each letter of the alphabet – Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert creates an alternately hopeful and alarming manifesto on the climate crisis.

With twenty-six dazzling, interwoven pieces – one for each letter of the alphabet – Pulitzer Prize- winning author Elizabeth Kolbert creates an alternately hopeful and alarming manifesto on the climate crisis.

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Climate change resists narrative – and yet we must see clearly what’s happening in our world. Millions of lives are at stake, and upwards of a million species. We must act.

In H Is for Hope, Elizabeth Kolbert investigates the history and future of climate change – from A, for Svante Arrhenius, who created the world’s first climate model in 1894, to Z, for Net Zero. Along the way, she looks at Greta Thunberg’s ‘blah blah blah’ speech, flies an all-electric plane, experiments with the effects of extreme temperatures on the human body, and struggles with the deep uncertainty of the future.

Complemented by Wesley Allsbrook’s gorgeous, colour illustrations, H Is for Hope offers an inspiring, worrying, and above all, hopeful vision for how we can still save our planet.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780861548668

Publisher: Oneworld Publications

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 04 April 2024

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Oneworld Publications

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Wesley Allsbrook

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 194.0mm

Height: 238.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

About the Author

Elizabeth Kolbert is the bestselling author of Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change; The Sixth Extinction, for which she won a Pulitzer Prize, and Under the White Sky: The Nature of the Future. For her work at The New Yorker, where she’s a staff writer, she has received two National Magazine Awards, a National Academies Communication Award, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.

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