Ebook: Are we screwed?: how a new generation is fighting to survive climate change
Author: Dembicki Geoff
- Tags: Zmiany klimatyczne--aspekt ekonomiczny, Zmiany klimatyczne--aspekt polityczny, Zmiany klimatyczne--aspekt społeczny, Zmiany klimatyczne -- aspekt społeczny, Zmiany klimatyczne -- aspekt polityczny, Zmiany klimatyczne -- aspekt ekonomiczny
- Year: 2017
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- City: New York i 4 pozostałe
- Edition: First published
- Language: English
- epub
A declaration of resistance, and a roadmap for radical change, from the generation that will be most screwed by climate change.
The Millennial generation could be first to experience the doomsday impacts of climate change. It's also the last generation able to do something about them. With time ticking down, 31-year-old journalist Geoff Dembicki journeyed to Silicon Valley, Canada's tar sands, Washington, DC, Wall Street and the Paris climate talks to find out if he should hope or despair. What he learned surprised him. Millions of people his age want to radically change our world, and they are at the forefront of resistance to the politicians and CEOs steering our planet towards disaster.
In Are We Screwed?, Dembicki gives a firsthand account of this movement, and the shift in generational values behind it, through the stories of young people fighting for their survival. It begins with a student who abandons society to live in the...