Future We Choose

Surviving the Climate Crisis

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Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac: Future We Choose (2020, Manilla)

160 pages

English language

Published Feb. 7, 2020 by Manilla.

ISBN:
978-1-83877-082-2
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A lesson for the future

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This book was written by Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac, architects and lead negotiators of the 2015 Paris Agreement.

Christiana and Tom discussed how they used their power to bring change at the Paris Agreement. They discuss the politics that is played behind the scenes and how the summit nearly ended due to national security. Despite the concerns raised they continued battling due to the uncertainty of another summit occurring.

This book predicts what the future may look like with the inventions of technology and lack of resources like water. How autonomous vehicles may help the environment but act as trackers to repressive countries.

Each chapter showcases a problem and solution to the crisis from fake news on social media and conformation biases to climate doom and why we need to be optimistic when talking about the changing climate. Christiana and Tom draws on politicians, companies and us to bring …

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  • Physics