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Humanity's Moment

A Climate Scientist's Case for Hope
  • ISBN-13: 9781642832846
  • Publisher: ISLAND PRESS
    Imprint: ISLAND PRESS
  • By Joelle Gergis
  • Price: AUD $63.99
  • Stock: 2 in stock
  • Availability: Order will be despatched as soon as possible.
  • Local release date: 24/07/2023
  • Format: Hardback (235.00mm X 155.00mm) 336 pages Weight: 600g
  • Categories: Climate change [RNPG]
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When climate scientist Joelle Gergis set to work on the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Sixth Assessment Report, the research she encountered kept her up at night. Through countless hours spent with the worlds top scientists to piece together the latest global assessment of climate change, she realised that the impacts were occurring faster than anyone had predicted. In Humanitys Moment, Joelle takes us through the science in the IPCC report with unflinching honesty, explaining what it means for our future, while sharing her personal reflections on bearing witness to the heartbreak of the climate emergency unfolding in real time. But this is not a lament for a lost world. It is an inspiring reminder that human history is an endless tug-of-war for social justice. We are each a part of an eternal evolutionary force that can transform our world. Joelle shows us that the solutions we need to live sustainably already exist - we just need the social movement and political will to create a better world. Humanitys Moment is a climate scientists guide to rekindling hope, and a call to action to restore our relationship with ourselves, each other, and our planet.

Dr. Joelle Gergis is an award-winning climate scientist and writer at the Australian National University. She served as a lead author for the IPCC Sixth Assessment Report and is the author of Sunburnt Country: The History and Future of Climate Change in Australia.

Prologue: Life on the frontline Part 1: The Head Chapter 1: Elemental Earth Chapter 2: The age of consequences Chapter 3: Fork in the road Chapter 4: Gradually, then suddenly Part 2: The Heart Chapter 5: Where the battle has been lost Chapter 6: Sea of humanity Chapter 7: Lost worlds Chapter 8: A thousand generations Part 3: The Whole Chapter 9: In all darkness, there is light Chapter 10: A new kind of politics Chapter 11: Life imitating art Chapter 12: Revolutions seem impossible until they become inevitable Epilogue: Homecoming Acknowledgments References Permissions Index

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