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1. Emma , 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.

1. Tim Flannery

Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia?: Quarterly Essay 31

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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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2. Tim Flannery

Mammals of the South-West Pacific

Mammals of the South-west Pacific details the natural history for more than 180 species of marsupials, bats and rodents from 24 Pacific nations and territories. Species profiles are accompanied by distribution maps, illustrations and photographs.

1. Peter Wohlleben

The Hidden Life of Trees

1. Greta , Thunberg
2. Naomi , Klein
3. Timothy , Morton

Green Ideas Slipcase

In twenty short books, Penguin brings you the classics of the environmental movement - now in one complete setOver the past 75 years, a new canon has emerged. As humans have driven the living planet to the brink of collapse, visionary thinkers around the world have raised their voices to defend it. Their words have endured, becoming the classics that define the environmental movement today.From art, literature, food and gardening, to technology, economics, politics and ethics, each of these short books deepens our sense of our place in nature; each is a seed from which a bold activism can grow. Together, they show the richness of environmental thought, and point the way to a fairer, saner, greener world.