The Climate Book

The Facts and the Solutions

De: Greta Thunberg

Narrado por: Amelia Stubberfield, Greta Thunberg, Nicholas Khan, Olivia Forrest

We still have time to change the world. From Greta Thunberg, the world's leading climate activist, comes the essential handbook for making it happen.

You might think it's an impossible task: secure a safe future for life on Earth, at a scale and speed never seen, against all the odds. There is hope - but only if we listen to the science before it's too late.

In The Climate Book, Greta Thunberg has gathered the wisdom of over one hundred experts - geophysicists, oceanographers and meteorologists; engineers, economists and mathematicians; historians, philosophers and indigenous leaders - to equip us all with the knowledge we need to combat climate disaster. Alongside them, she shares her own stories of demonstrating and uncovering greenwashing around the world, revealing how much we have been kept in the dark. This is one of our biggest challenges, she shows, but also our greatest source of hope. Once we are given the full picture, how can we not act? And if a schoolchild's strike could ignite a global protest, what could we do collectively if we tried?

We are alive at the most decisive time in the history of humanity. Together, we can do the seemingly impossible. But it has to be us, and it has to be now.


* This audiobook edition includes a downloadable PDF of climate charts and trends from throughout the book.

Reseñas de la Crítica

“A remarkable contribution to climate literature—and an urgent must-read.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Having curated Yale Climate Connections’ monthly bookshelf collection since early 2015, I was acquainted with over 1,000 books and reports that address climate change in some way . . . The Climate Book is the most ambitious, wide-ranging, and hard-hitting collection I have ever encountered.” —Yale Climate Connections

"The urgency to act now, to kick the addiction to fossil fuels, practically jumps off the page to punch you in the gut. So while not a pleasant read—it’s quite stressful—it’s a book I can’t recommend enough.” —Science News

“Stuffed with charts and graphs and photos . . . the book is sure to educate. . . . Hopefully billions of people read The Climate Book and enough of them rise up to demand change.” —Associated Press

“Impressively, in The Climate Book, Thunberg and team—which includes well-known names like Margaret Atwood, George Monbiot, Bill McKibben and Robin Wall Kimmerer—explain and offer action items in 84 compelling, bite-size chapters . . . The cumulative impact on my understanding of the crisis through [the book’s] data, cross-cultural reflections, and paths for step-by-step change became mesmerizing.” —NPR.org

“Impassioned . . . Thunberg gathers essays from scientists, journalists, and activists, starting with lucid and accessible explanations of the science of global warming and its possible effects . . . A comprehensive and articulate shock to the system.” —Publishers Weekly

“An urgent collection of writing by leaders in the fields of science, engineering, history, philosophy, and activism . . . Brilliant and alarming . . . Vital reading for anyone who cares about the planet.” —Kirkus (starred review)

“[A] sweeping compendium of essays contributed by more than 100 academicians, authors, environmentalists, and journalists whose specific professional expertise or profound humanitarian concern amplifies the existing science surrounding this crisis of sustainability and ecology. Yet among this esteemed roster of recognized voices, it is Thunberg’s own eloquence that elevates the collection with introductory essays for each section that convey a sense of urgency that is genuine, grounded, and unimpeachable.” —Booklist (starred review)

A Must Read!

This book, while of course difficult content, made me feel calmer in the end because all the truth is there. I truly believe that humanity is capable of great reorganization and creative change, but it requires a full awareness of the problem. Thank you Greta and team for providing us all with such an invaluable resource. I read every word. I believe this crisis can lead us to a place better than anyone could imagine but it will require becoming fully awake to the existential challenge nature is presenting to us.

Essential read for ALL

Everyone needs to read this book. It contains the most important information of our species existence.

Powerful and informative call to action

I listened to this book during my commute and it made my commute fly by. The facts presented are sobering. First half: We are in a climate crisis on so many levels. Second half: Solutions are discussed, and how the individual can help. Had chapters written by a whole bunch of diverse climate experts from around the world. Loved this book, and also greatly saddened, and also greatly motivated. I finally decided to go vegetarian after reading this book. I had been thinking of going veg for about 10 years. This book convinced me to finally do it.

Important and accessible

"It is important that we do not blame individuals for what they do or don't do."
For those that come to this book full of misplaced anger and recent I say, read the book. Greta voices many of the complaints that you have of what is wrong with the way climate change is being handled and she is the harshest critic of the way politicians are shifting the blame for it and lying to the public.

For those already familiar with Greta's message it is a good reminder that the pressure on governments and the big polluters needs to be kept up, that things are currently not being handled in a way that will avert disaster. The governments are not "on top of this" and that we must make them be.

I recommend starting by reading the last chapter "What Next?" as it perfectly contains Greta's important message. That the climate crisis will not be solved by the consumer taking on a myriad of miniscule tasks to reduce their impact (even though they help). That what is needed is for governments to take significant meaningful steps towards reducing emissions. Governments need to immediately stop giving out taxpayers' money to high emitting industries, they need to stop exempting some emissions from the carbon bookkeeping, they need to better inform the public and governments need to be willing to accept that often short term economic gains in the coming years will result in multiplied inevitable losses in the coming decades.

This is a superb book. Perfect for everybody that wants to know what the situation really is. Filled with reports from dozens of top professionals and great insights from Greta that has an incredibly strong grounded view of what problems we are facing, of what will work, what will not work and what needs to be done. The whole book is very accessible and can be read either from back to back or by area of interest like a sort of cliffnotes volume of the climate crisis.

Ever striving to present the reader with the facts, the book is not designed to give the reader false hope. In fact it points out many of the false hopes being catered to the public in today's politics. But still it was not a depressing read, it felt more like being told by a friend "just how it really is" because only then can you decide what you want to do about it.

Excellent

Narration is very good on all the chapters. I especially enjoy hearing Greta Thunberg read her own pieces.
This covers so many aspects of climate change. I would recommend this book to everyone.
Very well done.