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What If We Stopped Pretending?

What If We Stopped Pretending?

by Jonathan Franzen

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn't have to mean the world is ending.

Format
HC
Category
Non-Fiction
Publisher
Harper Collins
Publish Date
January 2021

Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than sixty, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilization of life on earth massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing regions made uninhabitable by extreme heat or permanent drought. If you're under thirty, you're all but guaranteed to witness it.If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world's inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.

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