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Why Climate Breakdown Matters
by Rupert Read
Bloomsbury £17.99
“THERE are no non-radical futures,” top climate scientist Professor Kevin Anderson has repeatedly explained. “The future is radically different from the present either because we make huge, rapid shifts in reducing our emissions with profound shifts in our society, or we hang onto the status quo for a few more years whilst we lock in huge shifts from the impacts of climate change.”
After reading Why Climate Breakdown Matters, I’m confident Rupert Read, an associate professor of philosophy at the University of East Anglia and former Green Party councillor, wholeheartedly agrees with this.
A summation of his recent writings, talks and activism, it’s a deeply challenging and necessary book.
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