Living Hot
surviving and thriving on a heating planet
$24.80
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
4 June 2024
Summary
Living Hot: A Survival Guide for a Warming Australia
Living Hot tells the blunt truth about our current climate change predicament: it’s time to get cracking on making Australia resilient to intensifying climate extremes. If we prepare well, we can give ourselves a fighting chance to preserve some of the best of what we have, build stronger and fairer communities, find a path through the escalating pressures of a warming world – and even find new ways to flourish.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781761450594 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 176145059X |
| Author: | Clive Hamilton, George Wilkenfeld |
| Publisher: | Hardie Grant Books |
| Imprint: | Hardie Grant Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 4 June 2024 |
| Weight: | 200g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 135mm x 12mm |
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Critics Review
‘Living Hot is strangely liberating. Contentious, confronting and constructive – it’s essential reading for everyone.’ — Bob Brown ‘…an excellent introduction for those ready to engage in further conversation and who are open to confronting the psychological challenges of a warming world.’ — Books+Publishing
About The Author
Clive Hamilton
Clive Hamilton was recently named a ‘living legend’ among Australian academics and scholars. His influential books include Silent Invasion, Growth Fetish and Requiem for a Species: Why we resist the truth about climate change. A professor at Charles Sturt University in Canberra, he has held visiting academic positions at the University of Oxford, Yale University and Sciences Po. His articles have appeared in The New York Times, Times Higher Education Supplement and Scientific American, among others.
George Wilkenfeld is an independent energy policy consultant who helped develop the National Greenhouse Gas Inventory, star-rating labels for energy and water efficiency, and Australia’s corporate greenhouse emissions reporting system. He has over 35 years’ experience conducting energy and greenhouse policy studies for the Commonwealth, State and Pacific region governments. He has written extensively on the history of electrification.
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