'The Climate Big Book', an overview of the climate challenge led by Greta Thunberg
Swedish activist Greta Thunberg during a speech at the Glastonbury Festival in England on June 25, 2022. Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP - Joel C Ryan
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This is the event release for this Thursday, October 27.
The
Big Climate Book
, edited by Greta Thunberg, the Swedish initiator of the climate strikes, is a work that brings together the contributions of around a hundred experts from all over the world.
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To solve a problem, you must first understand it.
It is with these words that
Greta Thunberg
opens this
Great Book of the climate
, a choral work which brings together the texts of a hundred experts on the subject.
The project is ambitious.
It's about providing everyone with the information they need to understand the climate crisis as a whole.
The book is thus divided into several chapters for educational purposes: "How the climate works", "The planet is changing before our eyes", "What impacts on humanity" or "What must be done now".
The contributions of guest authors are sometimes dense, but always very well explained.
They draw up a general picture, from physics to economics, supported by numerous graphs, to end up with a brilliant summary of the state of science today, which shows us the magnitude of the challenge to be met, a task too often underestimated.
A challenge whose stakes are clearly set out.
In doing so, Greta Thunberg and the contributors to this
Great Climate Book
are also passing on some responsibility for its resolution.
"We can't say we didn't know", we are used to hearing, this is all the more true after reading this book, which ultimately only clearly sets out to as many people as possible what scientists have already known for decades.
His goal with the “Great Climate Book” was to make a book that all generations can read.
Lucas Minisini, journalist at Le Monde newspaper
Frederique Genot
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