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"At the dawn of a new decade, with temperatures increasing, alarming sea-level rise, and annual fire seasons threatening communities across continents, every decision we make will determine the fate of the planet and the promise of our existence. In this hope-filled exploration of the near future, leading climate advocate and journalist Eric Holthaus draws on the wisdom and work of climatologists, economists, futurists, and activists on the front...
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Explores how the natural world works, outlines the consequences of its unraveling by our activities, and offers practical solutions-with a description of societal and economic benefits. The first ten chapters of this book are a step-by-step crash course in ecology-you might call it "ecology for people in a hurry": what species do, how they co-exist, and how the natural world self-assembles and works, compared to our human-built environment-with ideas...
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From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP. Yet we take most of Nature's services
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"Life on Earth is facing a mass extinction event of our own making. Human activity is changing the biology and the meaning of extinction. What Is Extinction? examines several key moments that have come to define the terms of extinction over the past two centuries, exploring instances of animal and human finitude and the cultural forms used to document and interpret these events. Offering a critical theory for the critically endangered, Joshua Schuster...
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"Tibetans have experienced waves of genocide since the 1950s. Now they are facing ecocide. The Himalayan snowcaps are in meltdown mode, due to climate change--accelerated by a rain of black soot from massive burning of coal and other fuels in both China and India. The mighty rivers of Tibet are being dammed by Chinese engineering consortiums to feed the mainland's thirst for power, and the land is being relentlessly mined in search of minerals to...
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Monsieur Legault, au printemps 2019, vous avez prévenu les journalistes : il ne faut pas s'attendre à ce que vous vous transformiez en « bonhomme vert » ! Je présume que c'était votre manière — on reconnaît la légèreté comique avec laquelle vous traitez de ces questions — de nous avertir que votre conversion à l'écologisme resterait sagement à l'intérieur des limites de votre conservatisme économique. Je trouve cette attitude franchement...
9) Conflictos ambientales en Colombia: Retos y perspectivas desde el enfoque de DDHH y la participación
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Conflictos ambientales en Colombia. Retos y perspectivas desde el enfoque de DDHH y la participación ciudadana se articula en tres partes: en la primera se realiza un panorama de conflictos ambientales en las diferentes regiones naturales del país desde la perspectiva de la participación ciudadana. En la segunda se exponen las diferentes reflexiones de las autoridades ambientales locales y de las organizaciones sociales sobre los conflictos ambientales...
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...understanding how our private heartbreak relates to our large-scale problems is the only way we can unravel the helplessness we feel, claim our voices, and take action in the way we deeply crave. We cannot do any of these things while living with the cognitive dissonance of competing ideas, priorities, solutions, and top-down paternalism.
From racialised police brutality to climate change, #MeToo, trans rights', COVID-19, the prospect of nuclear...
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Do we want to live in a world without birdsong? The pesticides, the coalmines, the clear-felling forestry industry, the industrial farmers are destroying the earth with their insistence on profit. But what point is profit on a dead and silent planet?
In this enlightening yet devastating book, Susan Hawthorne writes with clarity and incisiveness on how patriarchy is wreaking destruction on the planet and on communities. The twin mantras of globalization...
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In Proud to Be Right, Jonah Goldberg, the New York Times bestselling author of Liberal Fascism, presents voices of the next Conservative generation. A fresh and provocative collection of lively political writing from right wing writers under the age of 30, Proud to Be Right rebuts the conventional wisdom that Generation Y is a uniformly liberal demographic-and that intelligent young people today fall blindly into the Barack Obama camp.
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The Animal Lover's Guide to Changing the World is the inspiring, accessible, and empowering book for everyone who loves animals and wants to live a more animal-friendly life, even if they aren't ready to join a movement or give up bacon.
With more than 7.5 billion people on the planet, wildlife is going extinct at the fastest rate since the dinosaurs. Three to four million dogs and cats are killed in shelters every year; billions of chickens, pigs,...
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Aff ecting millions of people worldwide, global warming is one of today's most timely and vital topics. It's an issue that's been studied, written about, and debated by scientists and lay people alike. But in Beyond Global Warming, engineer John Durbin Husher argues that we have an even bigger problem on our hands' and shows us what we need to do about it.
In Beyond Global Warming, Husher looks at the origins and causes of global warming and delivers...
16) La maison brûle
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La maison brûle. De menace lointaine, la crise du climat est devenue une urgence absolue. Pourquoi n'agit-on pas? Que faut-il faire pour éteindre le feu une fois pour toutes?
Naomi Klein défend depuis longtemps le projet d'un New Deal vert, une profonde transformation de l'économie pour combattre de front les bouleversements climatiques et les inégalités sociales. À l'heure o montent les eaux et la haine, Klein démontre que seul un programme...
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Examines how the animal/human divide has influenced power dynamics.
The division of life into animal and human is one of the fundamental schisms found within political societies. Ironically, given the immense influence of the animal/human divide, especially upon power dynamics, the discipline in charge of theorizing and studying power-political science and theory-has had little to say about the animal/human. This book seeks to amend this vast oversight....
18) Perdita
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In humanity's distant future, no living civilization knows how the ancient war ended, why all life on dozens of planets ceased. Now, researchers Nevan and and his wife, Sylan, follow an enigmatic message to the forgotten planet Perdita, which may hold the secret of the War's End. But when, their spaceship crash lands on the planet, the couple walks into a war zone. Nevan and their daughter are captured by the pro-technology leadership, Sylan and their...
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El colapso ecológico –y el discurso que insiste con la catástrofe planetaria– se han vuelto parte de nuestro sentido común. En esta antología, Eduardo Galeano propone una mirada alternativa, que es en realidad una constante en toda su obra, para acercarnos al mismo problema: nos recuerda nuestro vínculo insoslayable con la naturaleza, explora su riqueza y sus formas de resistencia, y hasta señala con alarma nuestra tenacidad urbana y "moderna"...
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Hoy hablamos de hongos, líquenes, ingeniería de bacterias, microbiota, inteligencia artificial. Ya no estamos en un mundo de objetos que responden a la voluntad humana, sino en uno de vivientes que se superponen con nosotros y nos generan desconcierto. ¿Son amigos o enemigos? ¿Cómo funcionan? Si el mandato de "modernizar" que nos trajo hasta acá buscaba cortar amarras con todo lo que parecía arcaico y proyectarnos, gracias a la ciencia, directamente...
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