Resultaten voor 'tim flannery'
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A Brief History of Climate Folly
If reducing carbon emissions is too difficult and too slow, could we engineer a scientific solution to the climate crisis?For millennia, humans have been trying - or claiming to - influence the weather. We have thought up ever more audacious and technologically advanced ways to change our climate to suit our needs, from performing human sacrifices, to drawing up plans to drain the Mediterranean, create a 'second moon', or even drop nuclear bombs on polar ice caps.In this book, Tim and Emma Flannery provide an entertaining overview of the most extraordinary attempts - from the utterly ridiculous to the not so sublime - and the ecological, geopolitical, and ethical issues they have raised. But despite past failures and wasted resources, new initiatives are being explored to bring us back from the brink of climate collapse: from pumping saltwater into the Arctic to injecting sulphur into the atmosphere. Drawing on the most up-to-date developments in climate science, Tim and Emma show us how these technological efforts are just as likely to fail and our hubris may lead us into even greater destruction.
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Beautiful Lies
In Beautiful Lies Tim Flannery launches an attack on the various lies that we tell ourselves about our resources, our past and our future.¿The lie of terra nullius that made us ignore the Aborigines' knowledge of the environment. The lie of the Snowy Mountains Scheme that did untold damage to our river system for the sake of white immigration. The lie that rushing to preserve wilderness will save endangered species. Tim Flannery is also skeptical about the myths of multiculturalism, and he argues that we cannot sustain a larger population given our resources. In his conclusion, he asks how we can discharge our responsibility to the refugees who are the victims of American policies we collude with.'This essay is written as a thundering no to the characteristic Australian assumption that 'She'll be right' . . . This is a Quarterly Essay written in the passionate belief that we need a coherent policy on population . . . If we do not have one, we will never be in a position to do justice to . . . the dispossessed people of the earth; indeed our children's children will . . . think we have dishonoured their birthright.' -Peter Craven, Introduction'The refusal to ratify the Kyoto Protocol will almost certainly, in time, be remembered as the greatest failure of the Howard government - Tampa, detention camps and Iraq notwithstanding.' -Tim Flannery, Beautiful Lies
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Now or Never
Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge?This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twenty-first century, and the impact it might have on the environ- mental threats that confront us today. Flannery discusses in detail three potential solutions to the most pressing of the sustainability challenges: climate change. He argues that Australia has a special responsibility when it comes to climate change, and that our prime minister could be a critical player on the global stage in Copenhagen in December 2009 - but only if we take swift and effective action and make sharp cuts in emissions. Brilliant and terrifying, Now or Never is a call to arms by Australia's leading thinker and writer on the natural world."Throughout the latter part of 2007 and into 2008, I found it increasingly hard to read the scientific findings on climate change without despairing ... I think that there is now a better than even chance that, despite our best efforts, in the coming two or three decades Earth's climate system will pass the point of no return." Tim Flannery, Now or Never
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Europa
De eerste 100 miljoen jaarTim Flannery brengt in zijn baanbrekende boek Europa de geschiedenis van ons werelddeel in kaart en de krachten die het leven erop vormen – inclusief de moderne mens – en schildert daarmee een portret van een continent dat vandaag de dag nog steeds een enorme invloed op de wereld uitoefent. Zo’n 100 miljoen jaar geleden dreven de drie grote continenten – Azië, Noord-Amerika en Afrika – uit elkaar, waardoor een grote, tropische eilandenarchipel ontstond. Deze archipel zou zich ontwikkelen tot Europa. Flannery vertelt de rijke geschiedenis van dit werelddeel vanuit een verrassende en vernieuwende invalshoek: de ecologie. Door de eeuwen heen zijn talloze dier- en plantsoorten naar Europa gemigreerd en met het continent mee geëvolueerd. In Europa werden de eerste koraalriffen gevormd, leefden holenberen, mammoeten en ’s werelds grootste olifanten én vonden cruciale ontwikkelingen plaats in de ontwikkeling van onze eigen soort. Sinds de mens 40 000 jaar geleden in Europa aankwam heeft hij enorme invloed gehad op de flora en fauna, en die invloed neemt alleen maar toe.
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Quarterly Essay 48, After the Future
Australia is home to many animals and plants found nowhere else on earth, making Australians caretakers of a unique heritage in a land that tolerates few mistakes. Yet, in After the Future, Tim Flannery shows that this country is now on the brink of a new wave of extinctions, which threatens to leave our national parks as "marsupial ghost towns." Why are species becoming extinct despite the tens of millions of dollars being spent to protect nature? And what more should be done?In this passionate and illuminating essay, Flannery tells the story of the human impact on the continent. He revisits his Future Eaters hypothesis, discussing how firestick farming helped to shape the ecology and preserve native fauna. He looks at the way recent governments, in tandem with an indifferent populace and a rabid libertarian right, have let environmental knowledge and commitments erode. Finally, he describes new approaches to wildlife conservation and argues that Australia must take the lead on these. This is an essay that rings the alarm on behalf of the natural world, and asks us to think again about protection of its irreplaceable riches."Such is the depth of public ignorance about Australia's extinction crisis that most people are unaware that it is occurring, while those who do know of it commonly believe that our national parks and reserves are safe places for threatened species. In fact the second extinction wave is now in full swing, and it's emptying our national parks and wildlife reserves as ruthlessly as other landscapes."-Tim Flannery, After the FutureiCorrespondenceThis issue also contains correspondence relating to the previous issue QE47 Political Animal: The Making of Tony Abbott by David Marr.
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The Weather Makers
The Weather Makers tells the dramatic story of the earth's climate of how it has changed how we have come to understand it and of what that means for the future. Tim Flannery's gripping narrative takes the reader on an extraordinary journey into the past and around the globe bringing us closer to the science than ever before. Along the way he explodes the many illusions that have grown up around this subject.
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The Eternal Frontier
In "The Eternal Frontier, " scientist and historian Flannery tells the story of the geological and biological evolution of the North American continent, from the time of the asteroid strike that ended the age of dinosaurs 65 million years ago, to the present day. Illustrations.
€ 19,50