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IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
DISSUADED: Disengaged members of the public watch Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in London last year

The Climate Majority Project: Setting the stage for a mainstream, urgent climate movement
Co-edited by Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh and Rosie Bell
London Publishing Partnership, £12

 

“WE haven’t yet exceeded the bounds of viable human civilisation, but we’re getting close,” top climate scientist Professor Michael Mann warned last year. “If we keep going [with carbon emissions], then all bets are off.”

This is why, in 2021, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

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