Hope Dies Last - Visionary People Across the World, Fighting to Find Us a Future

The award-winning environmental journalist’s extraordinary, long-awaited portrait of hope and resilience as we face a fractured and uncertain future In this profoundly human and moving narrative, the bestselling author of To write this book, Weisman traveled the globe, witnessing climate upheaval and other devastations, and meeting the people striving to mitigate and undo our past transgressions. From the flooding Marshall Islands to revived wetlands in Iraq, from the Netherlands and Bangladesh to the Korean DMZ and to cities and coastlines in the U.S. and around the world, he has encountered the best of humanity battling heat, hunger, rising tides, and imperiled nature. He profiles the innovations of big thinkers--engineers, scientists, conservationists, economists, architects, and artists--as they conjure wildly creative, imaginative responses to an uncertain, ominous future. At this unprecedented point in history, as our collective exploits on this planet may lead to our own undoing and we could be among the species marching toward extinction, they refuse to accept defeat. A remedy to climate anxiety by one of the most important voices on humanity’s relationship with the Earth,

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Alan Weisman, Weisman Alan
• Verlag: Dutton Books
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 22.04.2025
• EAN: 9798217047093
• ISBN: 9798217047093
• Seiten: 498
• Abmessung: 150 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Lyrik, Dramatik; Sachbuch; SCIENCE / Global Warming & Climate Change, Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, Climate Change, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Conservation of the environment, Environmental policy & protocols, Environmental policy and protocols