Perdiendo la tierra

In 1979 we already knew almost everything we know today about climate change, including how to stop it. Over the next decade, a handful of scientists, politicians, and strategists risked their careers in a desperate campaign to convince the world to act before it was too late. Losing Earth is its history. The New York Times Magazine devoted an entire issue to this groundbreaking Nathaniel Rich chronicle of that decade, which quickly became a journalistic phenomenon: the subject drew news, editorials and conversations from around the world. Losing Earth tells the human story, in rich and intimate terms, of climate change. It reveals the birth of climate denialism and the coordinated effort of the fossil fuel industry to thwart climate policy through misinformation propaganda and political influence. Rich translates history into the present, wrestling with the long shadow of our past failures and asking crucial questions about how we make sense of our past, our future, and ourselves; and develops a fascinating work that articulates the moral framework to understand how we got here and how we must move forward as soon as possible.