Requiem for a Species: Why We Resist the Truth About Climate Change

Author(s): Clive Hamilton

Society & Culture

We know how dire the future looks. We know how little time we have left to act. Yet we continue to ignore the warnings . One of Australia's sharpest thinkers explores the reasons why and offers his vison of our new future.


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Shortlisted for Queensland Premier's Literary Awards: Science Writer - Department of State Development Award 2010.

Clive Hamilton is author or co-author of Affluenza, Growth Fetish, Scorcher and Silencing Dissent.

Acknowledgments Preface 1 No escaping the science 2 Growth fetishism 3 The consumer self 4 Many forms of denial 5 Disconnection from Nature 6 Is there a way out? 7 The four-degree world 8 Reconstructing a future Appendix: Greenhouse gases Notes Index

General Fields

  • : 9781742372105
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : Allen & Unwin
  • : January 2010
  • : Australia
  • : books

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  • : Clive Hamilton
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : English
  • : 363.738/74
  • : 286