What if we stopped pretending?

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Sinopse

The climate crisis is here. Our chance to stop it has come and gone, but this doesn’t have to mean the world is ending.‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world’s failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?Jonathan Franzen's book 'Crossroads' was a Sunday Times bestseller w/c 04-10-2021.

Participantes

Autor: Jonathan Franzen

Autor

JONATHAN FRANZEN

Jonathan Franzen nasceu em Western Springs, Illinois, em 1959. É autor dos romances The twenty-seventh city e Strong motion. Colabora com as revistas The New Yorker e Harper's. Foi eleito pela revista literária Granta um dos vinte melhores jovens romancistas americanos. Polêmico, recusou-se a ir ao talk show de Oprah Winfrey, um dos programas de TV de maior audiência dos Estados Unidos, para divulgar o romance As correções.