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Losing Earth: A Recent History

Nathaniel Rich

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Losing Earth: A Recent History

Losing Earth was a Vanity Fair Best Book of the Year and a finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award. By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change—including 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. Losing Earth is their story, and ours. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to Nathaniel Rich's groundbreaking chronicle of that decade. Now expanded into book form, Losing Earth tells the human story of climate change in even richer, more intimate terms. It reveals, in previously unreported detail, the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry's 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.

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Publisher
Macmillan + ORM
Year
2019
ISBN-13
9780374721138
Genre
History
Topics
Climate changeEnvironmental policy failureFossil fuel industry influence

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