{"product_id":"losing-earth-nathaniel-rich","title":"Losing Earth (Nathaniel Rich)","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Nathaniel Rich's account starts in Washington in the 1990s and tells the story of how climate change could have been stopped back then, if only the powerful had acted. But they didn't want to.' - \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e \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. Nathaniel Rich tells the essential story of why and how, thanks to the actions of politicians and businessmen, that failure came about. It is crucial to an understanding of where we are today. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The excellent and appalling \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e by 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\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An eloquent science history, and an urgent eleventh-hour call to save what can be saved.' - \u003ci\u003eNature \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'To change the future, we must first understand our past, and \u003ci\u003eLosing Earth\u003c\/i\u003e is a crucial part of that when it comes to the environmental battles we're facing.'- \u003ci\u003eStylist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eAutorenportrait\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eNathaniel Rich is the author of the novels \u003ci\u003eOdds Against Tomorrow \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Mayor's Tongue\u003c\/i\u003e. His short fiction has appeared\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ein \u003ci\u003eMcSweeney's\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Virginia Quarterly Review\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVICE\u003c\/i\u003e,\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eamong other publications. He is a writer at large for \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Magazine \u003c\/i\u003eand a regular contributor to \u003ci\u003eThe New York Review of Books \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e. Rich lives with his wife and\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eson in New Orleans.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003ch4\u003eWeitere Angaben\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eBuch (Paperback), Englisch, 256 Seiten\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Weltbild.ch: Bücher \u0026 Outlet","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65807502836061,"sku":"K080819825","price":11.3,"currency_code":"CHF","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0911\/8915\/0045\/files\/8081982500001A.jpg?v=1788480554","url":"https:\/\/weltbild.ch\/products\/losing-earth-nathaniel-rich","provider":"Weltbild.ch Bücher \u0026 Outlet","version":"1.0","type":"link"}