Losing Earth: The Decade We Could Have Stopped Climate Change Audiobook (Free)

‘The excellent and appalling Losing Earth by Nathaniel Affluent identifies how close we came in the 70s to dealing with the sources of global warming and how US big business and Reaganite politicians in the 80s ensured it didn’t happen. Read it.’ John Simpson

By 1979, we knew all that people know now about the science of climate change – that which was happening, why it had been happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the real possibility to stop it. Obviously, we failed.

Nathaniel High’ about Losing Globe: The Decade We Could Have got Stopped Climate Switch s groundbreaking account of that failing – and how tantalizingly close we came to putting your signature on binding treaties that could have saved people prior to the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism – has already been a journalistic blockbuster, a complete issue of the New York Times Newspaper that has earned favorable evaluations to Rachel Carson’s Silent Springtime and John Hersey’s Hiroshima. Affluent has become an instant, in-demand professional and speaker. A significant movie deal is already in place. It’s the tale, perhaps, that may shift the conversation.

In the book Losing Globe, Rich can provide even more of the context for what did – and didn’t – happen in the 1980s and, more important, can carry the story fully in to the present day and wrestle with what those past failures suggest for us at the start of the twenty-first century. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historic missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to today, and what we are able to and must do before it’s truly too late.