{"title":"Nathaniel Rich","description":"\u003cp\u003eNathaniel Rich offers compelling narratives that explore complex environmental and scientific themes with clarity and urgency. His work often blends meticulous research with a storytelling style that brings global challenges, such as climate change, into sharp focus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eReaders seeking insightful examinations of nature and humanity’s impact will find Rich’s writing both illuminating and thought-provoking, inviting reflection on the tension between progress and preservation.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"losing-earth-by-nathaniel-rich-9781529015843","title":"Losing Earth","description":"By 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.\n\nNathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the New York Times Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's Silent Spring and John Hersey's Hiroshima. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.\n\nIn the book Losing Earth, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us in 2019. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48242937856236,"sku":"9781529015843","price":24.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781529015843-losing-earth-1.jpg?v=1787978327"},{"product_id":"second-nature-by-nathaniel-rich-9781250829696","title":"Second Nature","description":"From Nathaniel Rich, author of Losing Earth, comes a beautifully told exploration of our post-natural world that points the way to a new mode of ecological writing.\n\nWe live in a time when scientists race to reanimate extinct beasts, our most essential ecosystems require monumental engineering projects to survive, chicken breasts grow in test tubes, and multinational corporations conspire to poison the blood of every living creature. No rock, leaf, or cubic foot of air on Earth has escaped humanity's clumsy signature. The old distinctions-between natural and artificial, dystopia and utopia, science fiction and science fact-have blurred, losing all meaning. We inhabit an uncanny landscape of our own creation. In Second Nature, ordinary people make desperate efforts to preserve their humanity in a world that seems increasingly alien. Their stories-obsessive, intimate, and deeply reported-point the way to a new kind of environmental literature, in which dramatic narrative helps us to understand our place in a reality that resembles nothing human beings have known.\n\nFrom Odds Against Tomorrow to Losing Earth to the film Dark Waters (adapted from the first chapter of this book), Nathaniel Rich's stories have come to define the way we think of contemporary ecological narrative. Through the essays in Second Nature, he asks what it means to live in an era of terrible responsibility. The question is no longer How do we return to the world that we've lost? It is What world do we want to create in its place?","brand":"Macmillan Publishers New Zealand Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48244016840940,"sku":"9781250829696","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781250829696-second-nature-1.jpg?v=1787991761"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/nathaniel-rich.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}