How to be a climate optimist : blueprints for a better world / Chris Turner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Turner, Chris, 1973- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainability.

Sustainable living.

Climate change mitigation.

Clean energy.

Energy transition.

Physical Description:

285 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto : Random House Canada, [2022]

Summary:

"From the National Business Book Award winner and GG finalist, a very different book about facing the climate crisis, and what awaits us on the other side. Chris Turner has reported from the places where the sustainable future first emerged--from green islands in Denmark and green office parks in southern India, to solar panel factories in California and idealistic intentional communities from Scotland to New Mexico. Here, he condenses the first quarter century of the global energy transition into bite-sized chunks of optimistic reflection and reportage, telling a story of a planet in peril and a global effort already beginning to save it. This is a book that moves past the despair and futile anger over ecological collapse and harnesses that passion toward the project of building a twenty-first century quality of life that surpasses the twentieth-century version in every way. How to Be a Climate Optimist overflows with optimism in a moment of great panic, upheaval and uncertainty over a world on fire."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

How to be a climate optimist

The long, looping, "less bad" learning curve

The much better decade

The age of transition.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Turner, Chris, 1973- How to be a climate optimist.

ISBN:

9780735281974

0735281971

OCLC:

1260300861

Publisher Number:

99992600936