The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis,Christiana Figueres

Résumé

The world is on fire, from the Amazon to California, from Australia to the Siberian Arctic. The hour is late, and the moment of consequence, so long delayed, is now upon us. Do we watch the world burn, or do we choose to do what is necessary to achieve a different future?

Who we understand ourselves to be determines the choice we will make. That choice determines what will become of us. The choice is both simple and complex, but above all it is urgent.

Our negligence has catapulted climate change from an existential challenge to the dire crisis it is now, as we rapidly approach limits beyond which Earth as we know it will cease to be. And yet for many, these depredations are invisible. Despite the increasing frequency and intensity of natural disasters, we have still not connected the dots between the ongoing destruction of our natural habitat and our future ability to ensure our children’s safety, feed ourselves, inhabit coastlines, and uphold the integrity of our homes.

Governments have taken incremental steps to address the issue. The farthest-reaching effort is the Paris Agreement, which delineates a unified strategy for combating climate change. All governments of the world unanimously adopted it in December 2015, and most ratified it into law in record time.

Since then many corporations, large and small, have set laudable emissions-reduction goals for themselves; many local governments have enacted effective policies; and numerous financial institutions have shifted significant capital from fossil fuels to alternative clean technologies.

However, some governments have started to declare a climate emergency because as essential as the current corrective actions are, taken together they still fall far short of what is necessary to stop the rise—and start the reduction—of emissions worldwide.

Every day that passes is one day less that we have to stabilize our increasingly fragile planet, by now on its way to becoming uninhabitable for humans. We are running out of time. Once we hit critical thresholds, the damage to the environment, and consequently to our future on this planet, will be irreparable.

CONTENTS

Dedication
Introduction: The Critical Decade
PART I TWO WORLDS

1. Choosing Our Future
2. The World We Are Creating
3. The World We Must Create
PART II THREE MINDSETS

4. Who We Choose to Be
5. Stubborn Optimism
6. Endless Abundance
7. Radical Regeneration
PART III TEN ACTIONS

8. Doing What Is Necessary
Let Go of the Old World
Face Your Grief but Hold a Vision of the Future
Defend the Truth
See Yourself as a Citizen—Not as a Consumer
Move Beyond Fossil Fuels
Reforest the Earth
Invest in a Clean Economy
Use Technology Responsibly
Build Gender Equality
Engage in Politics
Conclusion: A New Story
What You Can Do Now
Appendix
Acknowledgments
Notes
-carectréristiques

Date de parution :25 février 2020 

Éditeur : Manilla Press

Poids de l’article : 358 g

N.de page : 240 pages

ISBN-13 : 978-1838770822

Dimensions : 14.4 x 2.6 x 22.2 cm

Langue : Anglais