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THE CLIMATE BOOK

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    • Part One / How Climate Works
      • 1.4 Civilization and Extinction
      • 1.5 The science is as solid as it gets
      • 1.6 The Discovery of Climate Change
      • 1.7 Why Didn’t They Act?
      • 1.8 Tipping Points and Feedback Loops
      • 1.1 ‘To solve this problem, we need to understand it’
    • Part Two / How our Planet is Changing
      • 2.2 Heat
      • 2.4 Air Pollution and Aerosols
      • 2.3 Methane and Other Gases
      • 2.5 Clouds
      • 2.6 Arctic Warming and the Jet Stream
      • 2.7 Dangerous Weather
      • 2.8 The snowball has been set in motion
      • 2.10 Ice Sheets, Shelves and Glaciers
      • 2.11 Warming Oceans and Rising Seas
      • 2.12 Acidification and Marine Ecosystems
      • 2.13 Microplastics
      • 2.14 Fresh Water
      • 2.15 It is much closer to home than we think
      • 2.16 Wildfires
      • 2.17 The Amazon
      • 2.18 Boreal and Temperate Forests
      • 2.19 Terrestrial Biodiversity
      • 2.20 Insects
      • 2.21 Nature’s Calendar
      • 2.23 Permafrost
      • 2.24 What Happens at 1.5, 2 and 4°C of Warming?
      • 2.1 The weather seems to be on steroids
    • Part Three / How it Affects Us
      • 3.1 The world has a fever
      • 3.2 Health and Climate
      • 3.3 Heat and Illness
      • 3.4 Air Pollution
      • 3.5 Vector-borne Diseases
      • 3.6 Antibiotic Resistance
      • 3.7 Food and Nutrition
      • 3.8 We are not all in the same boat
      • 3.9 Life at 1.1°C
      • 3.10 Environmental Racism
      • 3.11 Climate Refugees
      • 3.12 Sea-level Rise and Small Islands
      • 3.13 Rain in the Sahel
      • 3.15 Fighting for the Forest
      • 3.17 Warming and Inequality
      • 3.18 Water Shortages
      • 3.19 Climate Conflicts
      • 3.20 The True Cost of Climate Change
    • Part Four / What We’ve Done About It
      • 4.1 How can we undo our failures if we are unable to admit that we have failed?
      • 4.2 The New Denialism
      • 4.3 The Truth about Government Climate Targets
      • 4.4 We are not moving in the right direction
      • 4.5 The Persistence of Fossil Fuels
      • 4.6 The Rise of Renewables
      • Fossil-free Energy Sources
      • 4.7 How Can Forests Help Us?
      • 4.8 What about Geoengineering?
      • 4.9 Drawdown Technologies
      • 4.10 A whole new way of thinking
      • 4.11 Our Imprint on the Land
      • 4.12 The Calorie Question
      • 4.13 Designing New Food Systems
      • 4.14 Mapping Emissions in an Industrial World
      • 4.15 The Technical Hitch
      • 4.16 The Challenge of Transport
      • 4.17 Is the Future Electric?
      • 4.18 They keep saying one thing while doing another
      • 4.19 The Cost of Consumerism
      • 4.21 Waste around the World
      • 4.22 The Myth of Recycling
      • 4.23 This is where we draw the line
      • 4.24 Emissions and Growth
      • 4.25 Equity
      • 4.26 Degrowth
      • 4.27 The Perception Gap
    • Part Five / What We Must Do Now
      • 5.1 The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves
      • 5.2 Individual Action, Social Transformation
      • 5.3 Towards 1.5°C Lifestyles
      • 5.4 Overcoming Climate Apathy
      • 5.5 Changing Our Diets
      • 5.6 Remembering the Ocean
      • 5.7 Rewilding
      • 5.10 People Power
      • 5.11 Changing the Media Narrative
      • 5.12 Resisting the New Denialism
      • 5.14 Lessons from the Pandemic
      • 5.15 Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice
      • 5.19 Decarbonization Requires Redistribution
      • 5.20 Climate Reparations
      • 5.21 Mending Our Relationship with the Earth
      • What Next?
      • 5.8 We now have to do the seemingly impossible
    • Introduction / Climate by Numbers

Part Five / What We Must Do Now

  • 5.1 The most effective way to get out of this mess is to educate ourselves
  • 5.2 Individual Action, Social Transformation
  • 5.3 Towards 1.5°C Lifestyles
  • 5.4 Overcoming Climate Apathy
  • 5.5 Changing Our Diets
  • 5.6 Remembering the Ocean
  • 5.7 Rewilding
  • 5.10 People Power
  • 5.11 Changing the Media Narrative
  • 5.12 Resisting the New Denialism
  • 5.14 Lessons from the Pandemic
  • 5.15 Honesty, solidarity, integrity and climate justice
  • 5.19 Decarbonization Requires Redistribution
  • 5.20 Climate Reparations
  • 5.21 Mending Our Relationship with the Earth
  • What Next?
  • 5.8 We now have to do the seemingly impossible

5.8 We now have to do the seemingly impossible

Greta Thunberg

All online sources accessed on 19 October 2022

  1. shame can be a highly effective https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10806-021-09844-5.

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