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Publisher's Summary
Global climate change and global refugee crises will soon become inextricably interlinked. A new tsunami of climate refugees flows across the Earth. We are now at the moment of truth.
Climate change is with us, and we need to think about the next big disturbing idea - the potentially disastrous consequences of massive numbers of environmental refugees at large on the planet. In 2020, the United Nations projects that we will have 50 million environmental refugees mostly from Africa, Asia, and Latin America. How will people be relocated and settled? Is it possible to offer environmental refugees temporary or permanent asylum? Will these refugees have any collective rights in the new areas they inhabit? And lastly, who will pay the costs of all the affected countries during the process of resettlement? Environmental refugees are a problem beyond the scope of a single country or agency.
"A must read for policymakers and those in positions of power, especially the ones who remain in a state of denial about climate change and refuse to do enough to address the crisis." (The Hindu)
"This chilling and urgent call to action spares no detail in its mission to present the facts on a looming humanitarian disaster." (Foreword Reviews)
"Deals masterfully with a neglected crisis, how climate change is driving migration." (Christopher E. Goldthwait, US ambassador, retired)
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 119
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 100
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Story4 out of 5 stars 97
In recent years our world has seen transformations of all kinds: intense climate change accompanied by significant weather extremes; deadly tsunamis caused by submarine earthquakes; unprecedented terrorist attacks; costly wars in Iraq and Afghanistan; a terrible and overlooked conflict in Equatorial Africa costing millions of lives; an economic crisis threatening the stability of the international system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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A book that needs more than just narration
- By Organic Design on 06-10-15
By: Harm de Blij
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The Uninhabitable Earth
- Life After Warming
- By: David Wallace-Wells
- Narrated by: David Wallace-Wells
- Length: 9 hrs
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 2,509
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,194
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 2,181
An "epoch-defining book" (The Guardian) and "this generation’s Silent Spring" (The Washington Post), The Uninhabitable Earth is both a travelogue of the near future and a meditation on how that future will look to those living through it - the ways that warming promises to transform global politics, the meaning of technology and nature in the modern world, the sustainability of capitalism and the trajectory of human progress. The Uninhabitable Earth is also an impassioned call to action.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Don’t read if you have depressive tendencies.
- By Ricky on 03-17-19
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The Climate Book
- The Facts and the Solutions
- By: Greta Thunberg
- Narrated by: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan, and others
- Length: 17 hrs and 12 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 28
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Story5 out of 5 stars 28
Around the world, geophysicists and mathematicians, oceanographers and meteorologists, engineers, economists, psychologists, and philosophers have been using their expertise to develop a deep understanding of the crises we face. Greta Thunberg has created The Climate Book in partnership with more than one hundred of these experts in order to equip us all with this knowledge. Alongside them, Thunberg shares her own stories of learning, demonstrating, and uncovering greenwashing around the world. This is one of our biggest problems, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Important and accessible
- By Gudmundur Hardarson on 03-01-23
By: Greta Thunberg
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Tropic of Chaos
- Climate Change and the New Geography of Violence
- By: Christian Parenti
- Narrated by: Vikas Adam
- Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 56
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 52
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
From Africa to Asia and Latin America, the era of climate wars has begun. Extreme weather is breeding banditry, humanitarian crisis, and state failure. In Tropic of Chaos, investigative journalist Christian Parenti travels along the front lines of this gathering catastrophe - the belt of economically and politically battered postcolonial nations and war zones girding the planet's mid-latitudes. Here he finds failed states amid climatic disasters.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Absolute must-read topic!
- By Kevin on 07-07-14
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This Changes Everything
- Capitalism vs. the Climate
- By: Naomi Klein
- Narrated by: Ellen Archer
- Length: 20 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,572
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,365
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,355
In This Changes Everything Naomi Klein argues that climate change isn’t just another issue to be neatly filed between taxes and health care. It’s an alarm that calls us to fix an economic system that is already failing us in many ways. Klein meticulously builds the case for how massively reducing our greenhouse emissions is our best chance to simultaneously reduce gaping inequalities, re-imagine our broken democracies, and rebuild our gutted local economies.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Didactic and preachy... and I agree with her
- By plau on 09-25-16
By: Naomi Klein
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The Future Earth
- A Radical Vision for What's Possible in the Age of Warming
- By: Eric Holthaus
- Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 6 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Story4 out of 5 stars 38
This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Motivating for those who feel it’s too late
- By Brion Hurley on 04-01-21
By: Eric Holthaus
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The Really Inconvenient Truths
- By: Iain Murray
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 10 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 47
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Story4 out of 5 stars 48
Iain Murray's exposé reveals how environmental blowhards actually do more to waste energy, endanger species, and kill people than those they finger, while capitalism, hunting, and old-fashioned property rights have made the planet better. Rather than just myth busting and blame shifting, Murray offers applicable and effective solutions for each catastrophe - something the Left has yet to do.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Too right wing in his politics.
- By Ricky on 09-30-08
By: Iain Murray
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The Madhouse Effect
- How Climate Change Denial Is Threatening Our Planet, Destroying Our Politics, and Driving Us Crazy
- By: Michael E. Mann, Tom Toles
- Narrated by: Alan Taylor
- Length: 4 hrs and 18 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 76
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
The award-winning climate scientist Michael E. Mann and the Pulitzer Prize-winning political cartoonist Tom Toles have been on the front lines of the fight against climate denialism for most of their careers. They have witnessed the manipulation of the media by business and political interests and the unconscionable play to partisanship on issues that affect the well-being of billions. The lessons they have learned have been invaluable, inspiring this brilliant escape hatch from the madhouse of the climate wars.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Information
- By Joe on 01-31-20
By: Michael E. Mann, and others
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Climate of Hope
- How Cities, Businesses, and Citizens Can Save the Planet
- By: Michael Bloomberg, Carl Pope
- Narrated by: Michael R. Bloomberg - introduction, Charles Pellett, Carl Pope
- Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 210
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 188
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 187
From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens—and even, someday, by Washington.
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5 out of 5 stars
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INCREDIBLE
- By David Cohn on 06-22-17
By: Michael Bloomberg, and others
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All Hell Breaking Loose
- The Pentagon's Perspective on Climate Change
- By: Michael T. Klare
- Narrated by: Richard Poe
- Length: 7 hrs and 46 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 65
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
The Pentagon, unsentimental and politically conservative, might not seem likely to be worried about climate change - still linked, for many people, with polar bears and coral reefs. Yet, of all the major institutions in American society, none take climate change as seriously as the US military. Drawing on previously obscure reports and government documents, renowned security expert Michael Klare shows that the US military sees the climate threat as imperiling the country on several fronts at once.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Our biggest danger
- By tess pechka on 11-19-19
By: Michael T. Klare
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The Future
- Six Drivers of Global Change
- By: Al Gore
- Narrated by: Al Gore
- Length: 18 hrs and 43 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 259
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 221
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 222
Ours is a time of revolutionary change that has no precedent in history. With the same passion he brought to the challenge of climate change, and with his decades of experience on the front lines of global policy, Al Gore surveys our planet’s beclouded horizon and offers a sober, learned, and ultimately hopeful forecast in the visionary tradition of Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock and John Naisbitt’s Megatrends. In The Future, Gore identifies the emerging forces that are reshaping our world....
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2 out of 5 stars
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Sorry Al it realy dose not work...
- By Mark on 01-31-13
By: Al Gore
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Late Victorian Holocausts
- El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World
- By: Mike Davis
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 15 hrs and 41 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 66
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 48
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China, and Northeastern Brazil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Mike Davis on Audible!
- By Nathan D. Backlund on 09-02-17
By: Mike Davis
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The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated
- The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late
- By: Thom Hartmann, Neale Donald Walsch - associate editor
- Narrated by: Paul Boehmer
- Length: 18 hrs and 2 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 71
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 72
While everything appears to be collapsing around us - ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, water shortages, global famine, wars - we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children's children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio's feature documentary movie The 11th Hour, The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight details what is happening to our planet, the reasons for our culture's blind behavior, and how we can fix the problem.
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the Most Important Books of our Time
- By Jana on 04-24-20
By: Thom Hartmann, and others
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Cool It
- The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming
- By: Bjørn Lomborg
- Narrated by: John McLain
- Length: 6 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 261
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 227
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 223
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world’s temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply....
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4 out of 5 stars
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2007 book
- By Terrence C. Watson on 09-26-19
By: Bjørn Lomborg
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Let There Be Water
- Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World
- By: Seth M. Siegel
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 152
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 151
Let There Be Water illustrates how Israel can serve as a model for the United States and countries everywhere by showing how to blunt the worst of the coming water calamities. Even with 60 percent of its country made of desert, Israel has not only solved its water problem; it also has an abundance of water. Israel even supplies water to its neighbors - the Palestinians and the Kingdom of Jordan - every day.
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3 out of 5 stars
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More water politics story than water technology
- By normal person on 04-12-21
By: Seth M. Siegel