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The global warming reader : a century of writing about climate change
A collection of writings with opposing viewpoints concerning the phenomenon of global warming, including essays and excerpts by scientists, politicians, novelists, religious leaders and others.
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The falling sky : words of a Yanomami shaman
The 10th anniversary edition
A Guardian Best Book about Deforestation
A New Scientist Best Book of the Year
A Taipei Times Best Book of the Year
\"A perfectly grounded account of what it is like to live an indigenous life in communion with one's personal spirits. We are losing worlds upon worlds.\"
—Louise Erdrich, New York Times Book Review
\"The Yanomami of the Amazon, like all the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia, have experienced the end of what was once their world. Yet they have survived and somehow succeeded in making sense of a wounded existence. They have a lot to teach us.\"
—Amitav Ghosh, The Guardian
\"A literary treasure…a must for anyone who wants to understand more of the diverse beauty and wonder of existence.\"
—New Scientist
A now classic account of the life and thought of Davi Kopenawa, shaman and spokesman for the Yanomami, The Falling Sky paints an unforgettable picture of an indigenous culture living in harmony with the Amazon forest and its creatures, and its devastating encounter with the global mining industry. In richly evocative language, Kopenawa recounts his initiation as a shaman and first experience of outsiders: missionaries, cattle ranchers, government officials, and gold prospectors seeking to extract the riches of the Amazon.
A coming-of-age story entwined with a rare first-person articulation of shamanic philosophy, this impassioned plea to respect indigenous peoples' rights is a powerful rebuke to the accelerating depredation of the Amazon and other natural treasures threatened by climate change and development.
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Eaarth : making a life on a tough new planet
Argues that a large-scale shift in Earth's climate is unavoidable and explains how humans should live if they are going to sustain themselves on the new planet that their mistakes have created.
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What's Your Third Act?
This article has a concrete plan in Third Act, an organizing project to help to solve the climate crisis. Older Americans need to use their political power to support the right candidates and their substantial monetary gain to pressure banks to stop supporting the fossil fuel industry.
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David Brower
In this first comprehensive authorized biography of David Brower, a dynamic leader in the environmental movement over the last half of the twentieth century, Tom Turner explores Brower's impact on the movement from its beginnings until his death in 2000. Frequently compared to John Muir, David Brower was the first executive director of the Sierra Club, founded Friends of the Earth, and helped secure passage of the Wilderness Act, among other key achievements. Tapping his passion for wilderness and for the mountains he scaled in his youth, he was a central figure in the creation of the Point Reyes National Seashore and of the North Cascades and Redwood national parks. In addition, Brower worked tirelessly in successful efforts to keep dams from being built in Dinosaur National Monument and the Grand Canyon. Tom Turner began working with David Brower in 1968 and remained close to him until Brower’s death. As an insider, Turner creates an intimate portrait of Brower the man and the decisive role he played in the development of the environmental movement. Culling material from Brower’s diaries, notebooks, articles, books, and published interviews, and conducting his own interviews with many of Brower’s admirers, opponents, and colleagues, Turner brings to life one of the movement's most controversial and complex figures.
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Radio free Vermont : a fable of resistance
\"As the host of Radio Free Vermont--'underground, underpowered, and underfoot'--seventy-two-year-old Vern Barclay is currently broadcasting from an 'undisclosed and double-secret location.' With the help of a young computer prodigy named Perry Alterson, Vern uses his radio show to advocate for a simple yet radical idea: an independent Vermont, one where the state secedes from the United States and operates under a free local economy. But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A dose of reality
The pandemic we’re now living through teaches us many lessons, of course, but one of the most basic is something that farmers have known for thousands of years: physical reality is actually…real.That sounds trite, but in fact it’s the thing humans have largely forgotten as we’ve left the farm and moved to jobs that now mostly involve staring into screens. You can move words and images and money around those screens at the speed of light; there’s hardly a constraint on you.And so it is an affront when something like a microbe comes along and refuses to play by those rules. As it turns out, you can’t spin a virus, you can’t talk it down, you can’t force it to compromise or negotiate. Biology sets limits and we have to respect them, not the other way around. You may wish you could be back in church on Easter, but you can’t.
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