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When The Weather Makers was first published, the book actually forced the John Howard government in Australia to change its environmental policy. While on tour to promote awareness of global warming, Flannery met with other political and business leaders, including Al Gore, Richard Branson and Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s science advisor, as well as such leading thinkers as David Suzuki.
With Now or Never, a landmark essay about sustainability, Flannery reignites the conversation with new insights, warnings and solutions to the environmental dangers that confront us today. Flannery discusses in detail three potential solutions to climate change, the most urgent of the challenges we face in our pursuit of sustainability. Flannery’s crisp and engaging prose presents his arresting argument with sincerity and enduring passion as he confronts the greatest threat of our time. The book also features detailed responses to Flannery’s work by Richard Branson, Gwynne Dyer and others.
Brilliant and terrifying, Now or Never is a panoramic look at climate change in the context of human existence, by one of the world’s leading thinkers and writers on the natural world.
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Critical Praise for
Now or Never
“With scientific gravitas, complemented by the skilful use of layman’s language, Tim Flannery paints a serious picture of the planet’s future.”
— RICHARD BRANsON
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“Now or Never, in its rich faith in humanity’s ability to cope with the exigencies upon us, offers up the gift of poetry, and with it, the power of hope.”
— ALANNA MITCHELL
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The Weather Makers
Watch a video trailer for The Weather Makers (Requires Flash Player. May take a few minutes to load.) Rarely has there been a time when the fate of every one of the earth’s inhabitants has been in peril. Such is our present age. This generation of decision makers and consumers will, one way...
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An Explorer's Notebook
The Weather Makers catapulted Tim Flannery’s name into global consciousness; now he is known as one of the world’s foremost experts on climate change. But he didn’t just come into his knowledge and interest overnight. With its selection of exhilarating essays and articles written...
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