MARIA DUARTE recommends a remarkable study of the friendship between a Palestinian and a Pakistani, broken by a hostile state
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IAN SINCLAIR welcomes the first word on Transformative Adaptation, a new group that has grown out of Extinction Rebellion
AHEAD OF THE CURVE: Transition town are grassroot community projects that aim to increase self-sufficiency to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability through localization strategies, especially around food production and energy usage. In 2005, the founding of Transition Town Totnes became an inspiration for other groups to form.
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MATTHEW HAWKINS rakes through un-fancy words and flair-free summaries to find who and what might be flamboyant
PETER MASON is exhilarated by an exciting, well-considered and historically minded tribute to the great Trinidadian instrument
Reducing historical lives to ‘male’ and ‘female’ roles, we lose the nuance of those lives and a clearer understanding of past societies, suggests CLAIRE ISABELLA GILMOUR
CHRIS SEARLE relishes the genius of pianist Alexander Hawkins, his many ensembles, and his new album
Transformative Adaptation: Another World Is Still Just Possible
Rupert Read and Morgan Phillips, with Manda Scott, Permanent Publications, £10.95
IN 2024 the Guardian polled hundreds of leading climate scientists, finding almost 80 per cent expected at least 2.5°C of global heating by 2100, with almost half anticipating at least 3°C.
According to top climate scientist Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, a 3°C world will be “full of horrors” and “an existential threat to human civilisation.”
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IAN SINCLAIR recommends an important and timely book for climate politics right now and in the future