{"product_id":"nathaniel-rich-losing-earth-2019-hardback","title":"Nathaniel Rich: Losing Earth [2019] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The excellent and appalling \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth \u003c\/i\u003eby Nathaniel Rich describes how close we came in the 70s to dealing with the causes of global warming and how US big business and Reaganite politicians in the 80s ensured it didn't happen. Read it.' John Simpson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBy 1979, we knew all that we know now about the science of climate change - what was happening, why it was happening, and how to stop it. Over the next ten years, we had the very real opportunity to stop it. Obviously, we failed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel Rich's groundbreaking account of that failure - and how tantalizingly close we came to signing binding treaties that would have saved us all before the fossil fuels industry and politicians committed to anti-scientific denialism - is already a journalistic blockbuster, a full issue of the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Magazine that has earned favorable comparisons to Rachel Carson's \u003ci\u003eSilent Spring\u003c\/i\u003e and John Hersey's \u003ci\u003eHiroshima\u003c\/i\u003e. Rich has become an instant, in-demand expert and speaker. A major movie deal is already in place. It is the story, perhaps, that can shift the conversation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the book \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e, Rich is able to provide more of the context for what did - and didn't - happen in the 1980s and, more important, is able to carry the story fully into the present day and wrestle with what those past failures mean for us at the beginning of the twenty-first century. It is not just an agonizing revelation of historical missed opportunities, but a clear-eyed and eloquent assessment of how we got to now, and what we can and must do before it's truly too late.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rich, Nathaniel","offers":[{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50320535585107,"sku":"XV81529015829","price":11.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"New","offer_id":50320535552339,"sku":"9781529015829","price":21.41,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/rich-nathaniel-nathaniel-rich-losing-earth-2019-hardback-1119305809.jpg?v=1738766115","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/nathaniel-rich-losing-earth-2019-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}