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    The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future
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    The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future

    By Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

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    Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering.

    The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and ecology to humanize the abstraction of global warming and bring different voices into the conversation.

    Drawing on sources from anthropology to hydrology, botany to economics, agronomy to astrobiology, medicine to oceanography, physics to history, the author weaves a lyrical and powerful story of our relationship with nature.

    The book has three parts:

    "Past" addresses memory. Our inability to comprehend our staggering present partly lies in our ignorance of our staggering past. We peer into the black box of history to understand how we got here. We go on a journey across the roots of our ecological crisis, from the Roman Empire to the forests of Burma, from Congolese rubber plantations, to Colombian oil fields.

    "Present" illustrates how climate change is shaping our world today, explores how it relates to poverties and inequalities, and equips readers with a set of intuitive instruments to understand climate impacts.

    "Future" looks at alternatives and strives to illustrate in human terms the world we could lose and the world we can win. It asks what we can do and develops a transformative vision of a more ecological and equitable economy.

    The Memory We Could Be is vital reading for all of humanity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Society Publishers
    Release dateSep 25, 2018
    ISBN9781771422888
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    The Memory We Could Be: Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future
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    Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik

    Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynikis a young journalist and activist. His work has been published in Pacific Standard, Open Democracy and New Internationalist. He is the co-founder and co-editor of The World at 1C, a communications initiative designed to humanise the ecological crisis and clarify its causes.

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