Mark Lynas

Six Minutes to Winter

Nuclear War and How to Avoid It

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Produktbeschreibung

Nuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than climate change, yet we are in near-total denial. This book puts the issue back to the top of the global agenda.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm
• ISBN-13: 9781399410519
• ISBN-10: 1399410512
• Artikelnr.: 71647676

Autorenporträt

Mark Lynas is the author of five major works of popular science; his climate book Six Degrees won the 2008 Royal Society prize and was translated into 22 languages. He has written for the Guardian, New York Times and Washington Post, and appeared in the films Pandora's Promise and The Island President. He has co-authored peer-reviewed scientific papers on climate change, misinformation, GMOs and vaccines, and is policy lead at the worldwide pro-science environmental campaign network WePlanet.

Inhaltsangabe

Prologue: Brighter than a thousand suns
Chapter 1: Why we need to start worrying
Chapter 2: Winter
Chapter 3: Wildfires and war
Chapter 4: Volcanic winters
Chapter 5: End Cretaceous
Chapter 6: Existential risk
Chapter 7: Close calls
Chapter 8: Radioactive fallout
Chapter 9: Ban the bomb
Epilogue: The cherry blossoms of Hiroshima

Rezensionen

'The world is shadowed by the risk of nuclear winter, but we tell ourselves it's already spring and the terrifying prospect has passed. It hasn't. Urgent, gripping, and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call.'