21 Best Environmental Policy Books
Environmental Policy is a popular category for many book lovers. Our team at Speechify has curated a list of the top Environmental Policy audiobooks everyone must read.
See the top 21 Environmental Policy audiobooks below.
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Saving Us
- By: Katharine Hayhoe
- Narrator: Katharine Hayhoe
- Length: 8 hours 7 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.34(1339 ratings)
4.34(1339 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDUnited Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is stillUnited Nations Champion of the Earth, climate scientist, and evangelical Christian Katharine Hayhoe changes the debate on how we can save our future in this nationally bestselling “optimistic view on why collective action is still possible–and how it can be realized” (The New York Times).
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Called “one of the nation’s most effective communicators on climate change” by The New York Times, Katharine Hayhoe knows how to navigate all sides of the conversation on our changing planet. A Canadian climate scientist living in Texas, she negotiates distrust of data, indifference to imminent threats, and resistance to proposed solutions with ease. Over the past fifteen years Hayhoe has found that the most important thing we can do to address climate change is talk about it–and she wants to teach you how.
In Saving Us, Hayhoe argues that when it comes to changing hearts and minds, facts are only one part of the equation. We need to find shared values in order to connect our unique identities to collective action. This is not another doomsday narrative about a planet on fire. It is a multilayered look at science, faith, and human psychology, from an icon in her field–recently named chief scientist at The Nature Conservancy.
Drawing on interdisciplinary research and personal stories, Hayhoe shows that small conversations can have astonishing results. Saving Us leaves us with the tools to open a dialogue with your loved ones about how we all can play a role in pushing forward for change. -
Inconvenient Facts
- By: Gregory Wrightstone
- Narrator: Brian Holsopple
- Length: 3 hours 53 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.29(257 ratings)
4.29(257 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDYou have been inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and “experts” saying that our climate is changing for the worse and it is our fault. Increases in droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and poison ivy–to name aYou have been inundated with reports from media, governments, think tanks, and “experts” saying that our climate is changing for the worse and it is our fault. Increases in droughts, heat waves, tornadoes, and poison ivy–to name a few–are all blamed on our “sins of emissions” from burning fossil fuels and increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Yet, you don’t quite buy into this human-caused climate apocalypse. You aren’t sure about the details because you don’t have all the facts and likely aren’t a scientist. Inconvenient Facts was specifically created for you. Writing in plain English and providing easily understood charts and figures, Gregory Wrightstone presents the science to assess the basis of the threatened Thermageddon.
The book’s sixty “inconvenient facts” come from government sources, peer-reviewed literature, or scholarly works, set forth in a way that is lucid and entertaining. The information likely will challenge your current understanding of many apocalyptic predictions about our ever dynamic climate.
You will learn that the planet is improving, not in spite of increasing CO2 and rising temperature, but because of it. The very framework of the climate-catastrophe argument will be confronted with scientific fact. Arm yourself with the truth.
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How Are We Going to Explain This?
- By: Jelmer Mommers
- Narrator: Simon Darwen
- Length: 6 hours 28 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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4.26(126 ratings)
4.26(126 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDThere’s a new story in the making, one in which the consequences of our actions add up–and every contribution is meaningful.If climate change is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced, then why are we doing so little about it? AndThere’s a new story in the making, one in which the consequences of our actions add up–and every contribution is meaningful.
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If climate change is the biggest threat humanity has ever faced, then why are we doing so little about it? And where do we go from here?
Journalist Jelmer Mommers knows most people prefer not to talk or even think about climate change, and that is exactly why he wrote this book. Denial and despair are not the only possible responses to the current crisis.
Drawing on the latest science, Mommers describes how we got here, what possible future awaits us, and how you can help make a difference.
Five years in the making, How Are We Going to Explain This was an instant bestseller in the Netherlands. With this revised and updated translation, including responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, Mommers brings his unique blend of realism and hope to the wider world. -
Erosion
- By: Terry Tempest Williams
- Narrator: Terry Tempest Williams
- Length: 9 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: October 08, 2019
- Language: English
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4.26(1459 ratings)
4.26(1459 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis program is read by the author. Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams’s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up theThis program is read by the author.
Timely and unsettling essays from an important and beloved writer and conservationist
In Erosion, Terry Tempest Williams’s fierce, spirited, and magnificent essays are a howl in the desert. She sizes up the continuing assaults on America’s public lands and the erosion of our commitment to the open space of democracy. She asks: “How do we find the strength to not look away from all that is breaking our hearts?”We know the elements of erosion: wind, water, and time. They have shaped the spectacular physical landscape of our nation. Here, Williams bravely and brilliantly explores the many forms of erosion we face: of democracy, science, compassion, and trust. She examines the dire cultural and environmental implications of the gutting of Bear Ears National Monument–sacred lands to Native Peoples of the American Southwest; of the undermining of the Endangered Species Act; of the relentless press by the fossil fuel industry that has led to a panorama in which “oil rigs light up the horizon.” And she testifies that the climate crisis is not an abstraction, offering as evidence the drought outside her door and, at times, within herself.
These essays are Williams’s call to action, blazing a way forward through difficult and dispiriting times. We will find new territory–emotional, geographical, communal. The erosion of desert lands exposes the truth of change. What has been weathered, worn, and whittled away is as powerful as what remains. Our undoing is also our becoming.
Erosion is a book for this moment, political and spiritual at once, written by one of our greatest naturalists, essayists, and defenders of the environment. She reminds us that beauty is its own form of resistance, and that water can crack stone.
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America: The Farewell Tour
- By: Chris Hedges
- Narrator: Fred Sanders
- Length: 28 hours 34 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2018
- Language: English
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4.22(1790 ratings)
4.22(1790 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0023.99 USDChris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitterChris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate.
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America, says Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis; the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress; the pornification of culture; the rise of magical thinking; the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet.
Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In his “forceful and direct” (Publishers Weekly) America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’etat is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. “With a trademark blend of…sharply observed detail, Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream” (Kirkus Reviews) and seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time. -
The Patch
- By: Chris Turner
- Narrator: Stephen Graybill
- Length: 14 hours 1 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2017
- Language: English
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4.14(174 ratings)
4.14(174 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDBestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about theBestselling author Chris Turner brings readers onto the streets of Fort McMurray, showing the myriad ways the oil sands impact our lives and demanding that we ask the question: To both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?
The Patch is the story of Fort McMurray and the oil sands in northern Alberta, the world’s second largest proven reserve of oil. But this is no conventional story about the oil business. Rather, it is a portrait of the life cycle of the Patch, showing just how deeply it continues to impact the lives of everyone around the world.
In its heyday, the oil sands represented an industrial triumph and the culmination of a century of innovation, experiment, engineering, policy, and finance. Fort McMurray was a boomtown, the centre of a new gold rush, and the oil sands were reshaping the global energy, political, and financial landscapes. But in 2008, a new narrative emerged. As financial markets collapsed and the cold, hard, scientific reality of the Patch’s effect on the environment became clear, the region turned into a boogeyman and a lightning rod for the global movement combating climate change. Suddenly, the streets of Fort McMurray were the front line of a high-stakes collision between two conflicting worldviews-one of industrial triumph and another of environmental stewardship-each backed by major players on the world stage.
The Patch is a narrative-driven account of this ongoing conflict. It follows a select group of key characters whose experiences in and with the oil sands overlap in concentric narrative arcs. Through this insightful combination of global perspective and on-the-ground action, The Patch will show how the reach of the oil sands extends to all of us. From Fort Mac to the Bakken shale country of North Dakota, from Houston to London, from Saudi Arabia to the shores of Brazil, the whole world is connected in this enterprise. And it demands that we ask the question: In order to both fuel the world and to save it, what do we do about the Patch?
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How to Prepare for Climate Change
- By: David Pogue
- Narrator: David Pogue
- Length: 18 hours 30 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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4.14(382 ratings)
4.14(382 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0029.99 USDA practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue. You might not realize it, butA practical and comprehensive guide to surviving the greatest disaster of our time, from New York Times bestselling self-help author and beloved CBS Sunday Morning science and technology correspondent David Pogue.
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You might not realize it, but we’re already living through the beginnings of climate chaos. In Arizona, laborers now start their day at 3 a.m. because it’s too hot to work past noon. Chinese investors are snapping up real estate in Canada. Millennials have evacuation plans. Moguls are building bunkers. Retirees in Miami are moving inland.
In How to Prepare for Climate Change, bestselling self-help author David Pogue offers sensible, deeply researched advice for how the rest of us should start to ready ourselves for the years ahead. Pogue walks readers through what to grow, what to eat, how to build, how to insure, where to invest, how to prepare your children and pets, and even where to consider relocating when the time comes. (Two areas of the country, in particular, have the requisite cool temperatures, good hospitals, reliable access to water, and resilient infrastructure to serve as climate havens in the years ahead.) He also provides wise tips for managing your anxiety, as well as action plans for riding out every climate catastrophe, from superstorms and wildfires to ticks and epidemics.
Timely and enlightening, How to Prepare for Climate Change is an indispensable guide for anyone who read The Uninhabitable Earth or The Sixth Extinction and wants to know how to make smart choices for the upheaval ahead. -
Climate of Hope
- By: Michael Bloomberg
- Narrator: Michael Bloomberg
- Length: 9 hours 4 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: April 18, 2017
- Language: English
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4.09(751 ratings)
4.09(751 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDThis program is read by Carl Pope and Charles Pellett with an introduction read by the author. From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change areThis program is read by Carl Pope and Charles Pellett with an introduction read by the author.
From Mayor Michael Bloomberg and former head of the Sierra Club Carl Pope comes a manifesto on how the benefits of taking action on climate change are concrete, immediate, and immense. They explore climate change solutions that will make the world healthier and more prosperous, aiming to begin a new type of conversation on the issue that will spur bolder action by cities, businesses, and citizens–and even, someday, by Washington.
“Climate of Hope is an inspiring must read.” –Former Vice President Al Gore, Chairman of The Climate Reality Project
“Climate change threatens to reshape the future of our world’s population centers. Bloomberg and Pope have been leaders on fortifying our cities against this threat, and their book proves that victory is possible–and imperative.” –Leonardo DiCaprio
“If Trump is looking for a blueprint, he could not do better than to read a smart new book, Climate of Hope.” –Thomas Friedman in The New York Times
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The 2016 election left many people who are concerned about the environment fearful that progress on climate change would come screeching to a halt. But not Michael Bloomberg and Carl Pope.
Bloomberg, an entrepreneur and former mayor of New York City, and Pope, a lifelong environmental leader, approach climate change from different perspectives, yet they arrive at similar conclusions. Without agreeing on every point, they share a belief that cities, businesses, and citizens can lead–and win–the battle against climate change, no matter which way the political winds in Washington may shift.
In Climate of Hope, Bloomberg and Pope offer an optimistic look at the challenge of climate change, the solutions they believe hold the greatest promise, and the practical steps that are necessary to achieve them. Writing from their own experiences, and sharing their own stories from government, business, and advocacy, Bloomberg and Pope provide a road map for tackling the most complicated challenge the world has ever faced. Along the way, they turn the usual way of thinking about climate change on its head: from top down to bottom up, from partisan to pragmatic, from costs to benefits, from tomorrow to today, and from fear to hope.
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What Works
- By: Cal Thomas
- Length: 5 hours 45 minutes
- Publisher: Zondervan
- Publish date: April 01, 2014
- Language: English
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4.08(40 ratings)
4.08(40 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0021.99 USDWe didn’t just crawl out of a cave. We know what works based on experience. Why must we constantly re-fight the same battles over and over? Our politics and even our spiritual lives too often resemble the film “Groundhog Day” inWe didn’t just crawl out of a cave. We know what works based on experience. Why must we constantly re-fight the same battles over and over? Our politics and even our spiritual lives too often resemble the film “Groundhog Day” in which actor Bill Murray wakes up and repeats the same event again and again and nothing ever changes, as in present-day Washington.
Why don’t we consult the past and common sense in order to see that what others discovered still works. Wisdom existed before the Internet and other forms of mass communication – and video games, Facebook and Twitter.
Today, we have more information than ever, but less wisdom; more talk, but less listening; more things in the superficial showroom (celebrities are a good example) and less in the intellectual storeroom (that would be knowledge).
We KNOW what works – historically and instinctively—but politics too often gets in the way, as does ignorance. Too few people pay attention and the politicians easily pick their pockets – literally and intellectually.  That’s why Congress has an approval rating lower than cockroaches and colonoscopies and only slightly above pedophiles.
Instead of the constant jockeying for political advantage, suppose we start focusing on what promotes the general welfare, regardless of which party or ideology gets the credit.  It’s amazing what problems can be solved if solutions, not partisan gain, become the goal.
The American public is being “gamed” by politicians, the big media and other “elites,” whose main interest centers on themselves. When was the last story you saw on TV, or read in a newspaper, about anyone pursuing, much less achieving, a solution to any major problem?
This book is about solutions, not theories or an attempt to gain political advantage.  It’s about pressuring our political leadership to forget about the next election and start focusing on the needs of the people who work hard to provide for themselves, send their tax dollars to Washington, and want to see the country achieve something of value as it has always done. How about abandoning things that don’t work and start focusing on what does work?  The alternative is more of the past.  And Bill Murray with the ground hogs.
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A Blue New Deal
- By: Chris Armstrong
- Narrator: Eric G. Dove
- Length: 8 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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4(10 ratings)
4(10 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDThe world’s ocean is in an urgent state of decline–here’s what we do to protect it. The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures. But as we exhaust the resources on land, its reserves areThe world’s ocean is in an urgent state of decline–here’s what we do to protect it.
The ocean sustains life on our planet, from absorbing carbon to regulating temperatures. But as we exhaust the resources on land, its reserves are increasingly dredged and extracted to fuel new industry. Today we are facing two urgent challenges at sea: massive environmental destruction, and spiraling inequality in the ocean economy.
Chris Armstrong reveals how existing governing institutions are failing to respond to the most pressing problems of our time. From the fate of people whose lands will be submerged as sea levels rise, to the exploitation of people working in fishing, to the rights of marine animals, Armstrong examines the current crises and makes the case for a powerful World Ocean Authority capable of tackling them.
A Blue New Deal presents a radical manifesto for putting equality, democracy, and sustainability at the heart of ocean politics.
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Blessed Unrest
- By: Paul Hawken
- Narrator: Richard Powers
- Length: 8 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2006
- Language: English
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3.93(1563 ratings)
3.93(1563 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0016.95 USDThe New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. FromThe New York Times bestselling examination of the worldwide movement for social and environmental change Paul Hawken has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. From billion-dollar nonprofits to single-person causes, these groups collectively comprise the largest movement on earth, a movement that has no name, leader, or location but that is in every city, town, and culture. Though this movement has gone largely ignored by politicians and the media, it is organizing from the bottom up and is emerging as an extraordinary and creative expression of people’s unstoppable need to re-imagine their relationship to the environment and to one another. Blessed Unrest explores the diversity of the movement, its brilliant ideas, innovative strategies, and centuries of hidden history. A culmination of Hawken’s many years of leadership in the environmental and social justice fields, it will inspire all who despair of the world’s fate, and its conclusions will surprise even those within the movement itself.
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The Weather Makers
- By: Tim Flannery
- Narrator: Tim Flannery
- Length: 11 hours 59 minutes
- Publisher: Recorded Books, Inc.
- Publish date: March 10, 2008
- Language: English
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3.91(2639 ratings)
3.91(2639 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDFrom Dr. Tim Flannery, one of the world’s foremost experts on conservation and ecology, comes a book of immeasurable importance. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a “powerful and persuasive” work that is “sure to provoke strongFrom Dr. Tim Flannery, one of the world’s foremost experts on conservation and ecology, comes a book of immeasurable importance. Hailed by Kirkus Reviews as a “powerful and persuasive” work that is “sure to provoke strong reaction,” The Weather Makers is among the finest examinations of climate change ever written. Originally skeptical of global warming, Flannery spent years compiling his own research. What he learned is sobering. Human beings are weather makers whose production of carbon dioxide is polluting the planet at a devastating rate. Species are disappearing, the natural world is changing, and weather events, like Hurricane Katrina, are becoming increasingly disastrous. But as Flannery shows, there are cleaner ways to live-and doing so is the only way to avoid global catastrophe. Alarming but filled with ideas that inspire hope, The Weather Makers could be the most important book you ever read. “At last, here is a clear and readable account of one of the most important but controversial issues facing everyone in the world today.
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This Is the Way the World Ends
- By: Jeff Nesbit
- Narrator: Jeff Nesbit
- Length: 11 hours 0 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 25, 2018
- Language: English
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3.85(110 ratings)
3.85(110 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“With This is the Way the World Ends Jeff Nesbit has delivered an enlightening – and alarming – explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off threat. It’s impacting communities all over“With This is the Way the World Ends Jeff Nesbit has delivered an enlightening – and alarming – explanation of the climate challenge as it exists today. Climate change is no far-off threat. It’s impacting communities all over the world at this very moment, and we ignore the scientific reality at our own peril. The good news? As Nesbit underscores, disaster is not preordained. The global community can meet this moment — and we must.” –Senator John Kerry
A unique view of climate change glimpsed through the world’s resources that are disappearing.
The world itself won’t end, of course. Only ours will: our livelihoods, our homes, our cultures. And we’re squarely at the tipping point.Longer droughts in the Middle East. Growing desertification in China and Africa. The monsoon season shrinking in India. Amped-up heat waves in Australia. More intense hurricanes reaching America. Water wars in the Horn of Africa. Rebellions, refugees and starving children across the globe. These are not disconnected events. These are the pieces of a larger puzzle that environmental expert Jeff Nesbit puts together
Unless we start addressing the causes of climate change and stop simply navigating its effects, we will be facing a series of unstoppable catastrophes by the time our preschoolers graduate from college. Our world is in trouble – right now. This Is the Way the World Ends tells the real stories of the substantial impacts to Earth’s systems unfolding across each continent. The bad news? Within two decades or so, our carbon budget will reach a point of no return.
But there’s good news. Like every significant challenge we’ve faced–from creating civilization in the shadow of the last ice age to the Industrial Revolution–we can get out of this box canyon by understanding the realities, changing the worn-out climate conversation to one that’s relevant to every person. Nesbit provides a clear blueprint for real-time, workable solutions we can tackle together.
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The Green New Deal
- By: Jeremy Rifkin
- Narrator: David Cochran Heath
- Length: 7 hours 52 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 10, 2019
- Language: English
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3.71(510 ratings)
3.71(510 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.99 USDAn urgent, workable plan to confront climate change and transform America’s economy for a post-fossil fuel world from the New York Times bestselling author of The Third Industrial Revolution. A new vision for America’s future is quicklyAn urgent, workable plan to confront climate change and transform America’s economy for a post-fossil fuel world from the New York Times bestselling author of The Third Industrial Revolution.
A new vision for America’s future is quickly gaining momentum. The Green New Deal has caught fire in activist circles and become a central focus in the national conversation, setting the agenda for a new political movement that will likely transform the entire US and world economy. Although the details remain to be hashed out, it has inspired the millennial generation, now the largest voting bloc in the country, to lead America on the issue of climate change.
While the Green New Deal has become an overnight sensation, it takes on added weight in lieu of a parallel movement within the global business community that is going to shake the very foundation of society over the next several years. Behind the scenes, the key sectors that make up the infrastructure of the global economy are quickly decoupling from fossil fuels and recoupling with solar and wind energies that are now near parity in cost and soon to be far cheaper. New studies are sounding the alarm about the prospect of 100 trillion dollars in stranded assets as the economy abandons the old energies of the twentieth century for the new cheaper green energies of the twenty-first century, creating a carbon bubble that is likely to burst by 2028–leading to the collapse of the fossil fuel civilization.
This great disruption is occurring because the marketplace is speaking. Every government will have to follow the market or face the consequences. Governments that lead in the scale-up of a new zero carbon green infrastructure and create the new business opportunities and employment that accompany it will stay ahead of the curve. Governments that fail to lead will be doomed.
In The Green New Deal, New York Times bestselling author and renowned economic and social theorist Jeremy Rifkin delivers the political narrative, technical framework, and economic plan for the debate now taking center stage across America. The concurrence of a stranded fossil fuel assets bubble and a green political vision opens up the possibility of a massive global paradigm shift into a post-carbon ecological era, hopefully in time to prevent a temperature rise that will tip us over the edge into runaway climate change. With twenty-five years of experience at the forefront of enacting green transitions for both the European Union and the People’s Republic of China, Rifkin offers his indispensable wisdom in a blueprint for how to transform the global economy and save life on Earth.
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Cool It
- By: Bjorn Lomborg
- Narrator: John McLain
- Length: 6 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2019
- Language: English
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3.71(1029 ratings)
3.71(1029 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0019.95 USDA groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being consideredA groundbreaking book that transforms the debate about global warming by offering a fresh perspective based on human needs as well as environmental concerns
Bjorn Lomborg argues that many of the elaborate and expensive actions now being considered to stop global warming will cost hundreds of billions of dollars, are often based on emotional rather than strictly scientific assumptions, and may very well have little impact on the world’s temperature for hundreds of years. Rather than starting with the most radical procedures, Lomborg argues that we should first focus our resources on more immediate concerns, such as fighting malaria and HIV/AIDS and assuring and maintaining a safe, fresh water supply–which can be addressed at a fraction of the cost and save millions of lives within our lifetime. He asks why the debate over climate change has stifled rational dialogue and killed meaningful dissent.
Lomborg presents us with a second generation of thinking on global warming that believes panic is neither warranted nor a constructive place from which to deal with any of humanity’s problems, not just global warming. Cool It promises to be one of the most talked about and influential books of our time.
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Mill Town
- By: Kerri Arsenault
- Narrator: Kerri Arsenault
- Length: 12 hours 22 minutes
- Publisher: Macmillan Audio
- Publish date: September 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.7(1369 ratings)
3.7(1369 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0026.99 USD“This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it’s changed, and why it matters…Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right“This is a listen for anyone interested in small-town America, how it’s changed, and why it matters…Though Arsenault may not be a professional narrator, her passion for these important stories comes through with just the right amount of sincerity.” — AudioFile Magazine
This program is read by the author.A galvanizing and powerful debut, Mill Town is an American story, a human predicament, and a moral wake-up call that asks: what are we willing to tolerate and whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
Kerri Arsenault grew up in the rural working class town of Mexico, Maine. For over 100 years the community orbited around a paper mill that employs most townspeople, including three generations of Arsenault’s own family. Years after she moved away, Arsenault realized the price she paid for her seemingly secure childhood. The mill, while providing livelihoods for nearly everyone, also contributed to the destruction of the environment and the decline of the town’s economic, physical, and emotional health in a slow-moving catastrophe, earning the area the nickname “Cancer Valley.”
Mill Town is an personal investigation, where Arsenault sifts through historical archives and scientific reports, talks to family and neighbors, and examines her own childhood to illuminate the rise and collapse of the working-class, the hazards of loving and leaving home, and the ambiguous nature of toxics and disease. Mill Town is a moral wake-up call that asks, Whose lives are we willing to sacrifice for our own survival?
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“While this is a portrait of a town in decline, it’s also a paean to the community that cared for it and those who have remained there, including Arsenault’s own classmates, friends, and family. The author’s unusually quiet, tender reading evinces that love, while also clearly setting that affection against the brutality of the forces that have laid Mexico low.” — Booklist
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Justice for Animals
- By: Martha C. Nussbaum
- Narrator: Amanda Carlin
- Length: 15 hours 19 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2023
- Language: English
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3.67(16 ratings)
3.67(16 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDA revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and gameA revolutionary new theory and call to action on animal rights, ethics, and law from the renowned philosopher Martha C. Nussbaum.
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Animals are in trouble all over the world. Whether through the cruelties of the factory meat industry, poaching and game hunting, habitat destruction, or neglect of the companion animals that people purport to love, animals suffer injustice and horrors at our hands every day.
The world needs an ethical awakening, a consciousness-raising movement of international proportions. In Justice for Animals, one of the world’s most influential philosophers and humanists Martha C. Nussbaum provides a revolutionary approach to animal rights, ethics, and law.
From dolphins to crows, elephants to octopuses, Nussbaum examines the entire animal kingdom, showcasing the lives of animals with wonder, awe, and compassion to understand how we can create a world in which human beings are truly friends of animals, not exploiters or users. All animals should have a shot at flourishing in their own way. Humans have a collective duty to face and solve animal harm. An urgent call to action and a manual for change, Nussbaum’s groundbreaking theory directs politics and law to help us meet our ethical responsibilities as no book has done before. -
A Better Planet
- By: Daniel C. Esty
- Narrator: Traber Burns
- Length: 14 hours 40 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2020
- Language: English
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3.66(36 ratings)
3.66(36 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0022.95 USDA practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and theA practical, bipartisan call to action from the world’s leading thinkers on the environment and sustainability
Sustainability has emerged as a global priority over the past several years. The 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change and the adoption of the seventeen Sustainable Development Goals through the United Nations have highlighted the need to address critical challenges, like the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, water shortages, and air pollution. But in the United States, partisan divides, regional disputes, and deep disagreements over core principles have made it nearly impossible to chart a course toward a sustainable future.
This timely new book, edited by celebrated scholar Daniel C. Esty, offers fresh thinking and forward-looking solutions from environmental thought leaders across the political spectrum. The book’s forty essays cover such subjects as ecology, environmental justice, Big Data, public health, and climate change, all with an emphasis on sustainability. This book focuses on moving toward sustainability through actionable, bipartisan approaches based on rigorous analytical research.
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The Future Earth
- By: Eric Holthaus
- Narrator: Gary Tiedemann
- Length: 6 hours 42 minutes
- Publisher: HarperAudio
- Publish date: June 30, 2020
- Language: English
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3.51(693 ratings)
3.51(693 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0020.99 USDThe first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused.The first hopeful book about climate change, The Future Earth shows readers how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades.
The basics of climate science are easy. We know it is entirely human-caused. Which means its solutions will be similarly human-led. In The Future Earth, leading climate change advocate and weather-related journalist Eric Holthaus (“the Rebel Nerd of Meteorology”–Rolling Stone) offers a radical vision of our future, specifically how to reverse the short- and long-term effects of climate change over the next three decades. Anchored by world-class reporting, interviews with futurists, climatologists, biologists, economists, and climate change activists, it shows what the world could look like if we implemented radical solutions on the scale of the crises we face.
- What could happen if we reduced carbon emissions by 50 percent in the next decade?
- What could living in a city look like in 2030?
- How could the world operate in 2040, if the proposed Green New Deal created a 100 percent net carbon-free economy in the United States?
This is the book for anyone who feels overwhelmed by the current state of our environment. Hopeful and prophetic, The Future Earth invites us to imagine how we can reverse the effects of climate change in our own lifetime and encourages us to enter a deeper relationship with the earth as conscientious stewards and to re-affirm our commitment to one another in our shared humanity.
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How The Government Got in Your Backyard
- By: Jeff Gillman
- Narrator: Wes Bleed
- Length: 8 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: Dreamscape Media
- Publish date: February 15, 2011
- Language: English
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3.37(57 ratings)
3.37(57 ratings)Regular Price:Try for $0.0017.99 USDHow the Government Got in Your Backyard distills the science, the politics, and the unbiased, nonpartisan truth behind hot-button environmental issues from pesticides to global warming. By clearly representing what the left says, what the rightHow the Government Got in Your Backyard distills the science, the politics, and the unbiased, nonpartisan truth behind hot-button environmental issues from pesticides to global warming. By clearly representing what the left says, what the right says, what the science is, and what the facts are, Gillman and Heberlig don’t set out to provide the answer – they light the path so concerned citizens can uncover their own true and informed opinion. In this season of political discontent, the unbiased truth about environmental policies – free of political agendas – is as refreshing as it is fascinating. How the Government Got in Your Backyard is not for Republicans or Democrats, liberals or conservatives. It’s for anyone who is ready to get to the bottom line.
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Capitalismo Consciente (Conscious Capitalism)
- By: John Mackey
- Length: 10 hours 57 minutes
- Publisher: BookaVivo
- Publish date: October 19, 2021
- Language: Spanish
Regular Price:Try for $0.0024.99 USDUn libro indispensable para toda persona que quiera construir un mundo mas humano y cooperativo, y un futuro mejor para todos. La idea base es que la creacion de valor de las sociedades no es solo para los accionistas, sino para todos: clientes,Un libro indispensable para toda persona que quiera construir un mundo mas humano y cooperativo, y un futuro mejor para todos. La idea base es que la creacion de valor de las sociedades no es solo para los accionistas, sino para todos: clientes, empleados, proveedores, inversores, para la sociedad y el medio ambiente.A traves de tener en cuenta los puntos resaltados por los autores se pueden construir mejores empresas y negocios que hagan que el capitalismo alcance todo su potencial y cree valor para todos nosotros.”Capitalismo consciente”, ademas de un libro, es una organizacion que se esta internacionalizando con capitulos en distintos paises del mundo para fomentar sus ideas.
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En este libro, el cofundador de Whole Foods Market John Mackey y el profesor y cofundador de Conscious Capitalism, Inc. Raj Sisodia, defienden el bien inherente tanto de los negocios como del capitalismo. Con algunas de las empresas mas conocidas de la actualidad, ilustran como estas dos fuerzas pueden y hacen el trabajo mas poderoso para crear valor para todas las partes interesadas: incluidos clientes, empleados, proveedores, inversores, sociedad y medio ambiente.
Estas companias de “Capitalismo Consciente” incluyen Whole Foods Market, Southwest Airlines, Costco, Google, Patagonia, The Container Store, UPS y docenas de otras. Los conocemos; compramos sus productos o utilizamos sus servicios. Ahora es el momento de entender mejor como estas organizaciones utilizan cuatro principios especificos (proposito superior, integracion de las partes interesadas, liderazgo consciente y cultura y gestion conscientes) para construir negocios fuertes y ayudar a avanzar mas en el capitalismo hacia la realizacion de su mayor potencial.
Como lideres del movimiento Capitalismo Consciente, Mackey y Sisodia argumentan que los aspirantes a lideres y constructores de negocios necesitan continuar en este camino de transformacion, por el bien tanto de los negocios como de la sociedad en su conjunto.
A la vez una audaz defensa y reimaginacion del capitalismo y un plan para un nuevo sistema para hacer negocios basado en una conciencia etica mas evolucionada, este libro proporciona una nueva lente para individuos y empresas que buscan construir un futuro mas cooperativo, humano y positivo.
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