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The author opens the book with a discussion of how the Syrian Civil War, started in March 2011 after civil unrest following the torture by President Assad's security agents of young Syrians schoolboys, was blamed on climate change: according to the narrative, a multi-year draught had displaced agricultural labourers to towns and cities, with a consequent unrest for lack of available jobs.
The People's Climate March 2014 brought together hundreds of thousands of people for strong action on climate change. The climate movement convened its largest single event on 21 September 2014, when it mobilized 400,000 activists in New York during the People’s Climate March (plus several thousand more in other cities), organized by the ...
[2] [3] The book represents a wide range of essays, and creative works by over 50 women involved in climate change activism, science, and policy. [2] [4] [5] [6] All We Can Save focuses on building a feminine and feminist voice in the climate movement. [4] [7] Many commentators focused on the broad range of perspectives included in the book. [4]
Katie Hawkinson recaps some of the best climate-related books from the past year, and which ones to look out for next year
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire is a nonfiction book written by Andreas Malm and published in 2021 by Verso Books.In the book, Malm argues that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism, and criticizes both pacifism within the climate movement and "climate fatalism" outside it.
The Climate Book: Causes, effects and possible solutions to the climate crisis: Greta Thunberg and many others: 2022 ISBN 978-0-241-54747-2: Climate Capitalism: Capitalism in the Age of Climate Change: Climate change: efficient energy use and renewable energy: Hunter Lovins and Boyd Cohen: 2011: ISBN 978-0-8090-3473-4
A growing protest movement with roots in opposition to Covid lockdowns is railing against “15-minute cities,” an urban planning idea designed to reduce traffic.
Deep Adaptation is a concept, agenda, and international social movement. It presumes that extreme weather events and other effects of climate change will increasingly disrupt food, water, shelter, power, and social and governmental systems. These disruptions would likely or inevitably cause uneven societal collapse in the next few decades.