Losing Earth : a recent history
(Book)

Includes bibliographical references.

By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate changeincluding how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. This is their story, and ours. It tells the human story of climate change in rich, intimate terms, revealing in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industrys coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. It is a riveting work of dramatic history that articulates a moral framework for understanding how we got here, and how we must go forward, even as its emphasis on the lives of the people who grappled with the great existential threat of our age makes vivid the moral dimensions of our shared plight.