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

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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,

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Authors Alan Weisman, Weisman Alan
Publisher Dutton Books
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 22.04.2025
 
EAN 9798217047093
ISBN 9798217047093
No. of pages 498
Dimensions 150 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
Subjects Non-fiction book

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

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