TY - BOOK ID - 94192576 TI - Losing earth : a recent history PY - 2019 SN - 9780374191337 PB - New York, N.Y. MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux DB - UniCat KW - Environmental protection. Environmental technology KW - anno 1980-1989 KW - CLIMATIC CHANGES--HISTORY KW - GLOBAL WARMING--HISTORY KW - GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE--HISTORY UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:94192576 AB - By 1979, we knew nearly everything we understand today about climate change - including how to stop it. Through the 1980s, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists, led by two unlikely heroes, risked their careers in a desperate, escalating campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. This book is their story. It tells the human story of climate change. It reveals the birth of climate denialism and the genesis of the fossil fuel industry's coordinated effort to thwart climate policy through disinformation, propaganda, and political influence. The book carries the story into the present day, laying out the long shadow of our failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves. ER -