The Last Generation: How Nature Will Take Her Revenge for Climate Change - Softcover

Pearce, Fred

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1903919878 ISBN 13: 9781903919873

Publisher: Eden Project Books, 2006

Synopsis

Nature is fragile, environmentalists tell us. Not so. The truth is far more worrying. She is strong and packs a serious counter-punch. And, it could be on the way. This is the story that scientists are scared to tell us, because they fear they won't be believed. Man-made global warming is on the verge of unleashing unstoppable planetary forces. Biological and geological monsters are being woken, and they will consume us. The process will not be gradual. New scientific findings about how our planet works show that it does not do gradual change. Under pressure, it lurches into another mode of operation - virtually overnight Nature's revenge will be sudden and brutal, like a climatic tsunami sweeping across the globe. In this impassioned report, Fred Pearce travels the world on the story to end them all. He shares the fears of scientists about a man-made apocalypse within our lifetime. And, he visits the places where the action may start: deep in the Amazon, high in the Arctic, and among the bogs of Siberia. Most troubling, he uncovers the first signs that nature's revenge is already under way. Read his book, or your children will never forgive you.

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Review:

...[S]uperbly explains and dramatizes both the causes and consequences of climate change. One reads it both gripped and deeply alarmed -- Robert Macfarlane

Coherent and highly readable...Pearce has sounded the final warning...This book is a call to action we dare not ignore -- The Rt Hon John Gummer MP

He is a sceptic of the best sort, saying nothing until he has seen the truth of it for himself. -- Richard Girling, Sunday Times

Important reading for policy makers, climate-change skeptics and
anyone planning a future beyond the next decade.
-- Kirkus, starred review

Pearce is no idle Jeremiah...his book signals a shift of tone in the popular debate. -- James Flint, Daily Telegraph

Pearce's scholarly and thoughtful book...will guide us in a sensible retreat to the place where we can negotiate a peace -- James Lovelock

This is a powerful book about the most important event in human history. Read it. -- Professor Lord May OM FRS, Oxford University

This is the most frightening book that I have ever read...everyone should read this book -- John Gribbin, The Independent

Very readable...Pearce is excellent at explaining the fantastically complex interrelationships of Earth systems. -- Steven Poole, The Guardian

a well-researched book that makes the science accessible and exiting, The Last Generation is an ideal choice -- Fiona Archer, ecozine.co.uk

From the Back Cover:

'Apocalyptic in its vision, but never scare-mongering, The Last Generation superbly explains and dramitizes both the causes and the consequneces of climate change. One reads it both gripped and deeply alarmed.'
ROBERT MACFARLANE

Since the last ice age, almost 13,000 years ago, humans have prospered in a stable, predictable climate. But our generation is the last to be so blessed. In The Last Generation Fred Pearce lays bare the terrifying prognosis for our planet now being sketched out in learned scientific journals. We are at a tipping point. Climate change from now on will not be gradual, maintains Pearce - nature doesn't do gradual change. In the past, Europe's climate has switched from Arctic to tropical in three to five years. It can happen again. So forget what environmentalists have told you about nature being fragile, a helpless victim of human excess. The truth is the opposite. She is a wild and resourceful beast given to fits of rage. And now that we are provoking her beyond endurance, she is starting to seek her revenge.

'We are now at war with Gaia and have no chance whatever of winning. Fred Pearce's scholarly and thoughtful book analyzes the battlefield and will guide us in a sensible retreat to the place where we can negotiate a peace.'
JAMES LOVELOCK

'Fred Pearce has sounded the final warning...It is as if we are all on a plane with the auto-pilot set to crash.'
THE RT HON JOHN GUMMER MP

Read this book. Your children's future depends on it.

About this edition

• Publisher: Eden Project Books
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1903919878
• ISBN 13: 9781903919873
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336