With her brave book Silent Spring, Carson changed the course of US environmental history. We would do well to study her example"Glasgow is our last chance" has become a climate crisis mantra.World leaders scheduled to meet soon at the United Nations Cop26 climate summit in Glasgow to discuss - and act upon - our global climate crisis face a huge task, as do those here in the US as they fine-tune the climate measures in the Biden administration's Build Back Better plan. All political measures up to now have been insufficient. The latest UN report on climate change issued a "code red for humanity". And it's only going to get worse and probably irreversible - larger fires, extended droughts, more intense storms, and more environmental refugees, destabilized regimes and unlivable parts of our planet - if our carbon-based economy continues unabated.A frequent contributor to the Guardian, Kim Heacox is the author of many books, including The Only Kayak, a memoir, and Jimmy Bluefeather, a novel, both winners of the National Outdoor Book Award. He lives in Alaska Continue reading...
What the world can learn from Rachel Carson as we fight for our planet | Kim Heacox
27. října 2021 12:30
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Zdroj: The Guardian