Mary Robinson

Climate Justice

Hope, Resilience, and the Fight for a Sustainable Future

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Produktbeschreibung

"As advocate for the forgotten and the ignored, Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering, but illuminated a better future for our world." -Barack Obama "The antidote for your climate change paralysis." -Sierra "Insightful and optimistic." -The Guardian Former President of Ireland Mary Robinson's mission to bring together the fight against climate change and the global struggle for human rights has taken her all over the world. It also brought her to a heartening revelation: that that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate justice could be found at the grassroots level, mainly among women, many of them mothers and grandmothers like herself. Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked extraordinary change: from a Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations, to a farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural Uganda. In Climate Justice, she shares their stories, and many more. Powerful and deeply humane, this uplifting book is a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 208mm x 141mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 186g
• ISBN-13: 9781635575927
• ISBN-10: 1635575923
• Artikelnr.: 58018024

Autorenporträt

Mary Robinson

Rezensionen

Robinson's lucid, direct style works because it gives a voice to those who have taken it upon themselves to tackle Earth's most pressing problems. The book's central message is a mantra worth repeating: individual local action can grow into a global idea, producing positive change Observer