Mark Lynas

Six Minutes to Winter (MP3-Download)

Nuclear War and How to Avoid It Ungekürzte Lesung. 1 Min.

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Produktbeschreibung

'Urgent, gripping and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call' - David Wallace-Wells 'Terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed' - George Monbiot 'Powerful and insightful. Although many have forgotten about nuclear weapons, we shouldn't' - Charles Oppenheimer The world is currently closer to superpower conflict than at any time since the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis. World War III is a real possibility, and with 12,000 warheads in the arsenals of more than half a dozen countries, we are standing on a nuclear knife edge. Despite receiving very little attention, nuclear war is a far greater threat to humanity's immediate survival than climate change. While climate heating threatens humanity over many decades, nuclear war could destroy civilisation in just a few hours. A major missile exchange would mean months of near-total darkness, followed by a decade-long global nuclear winter that would destroy most life on Earth. Virtually everyone would starve in the resulting worldwide famine, and there would be no reliable refuge. We are sleepwalking to Armageddon. There are no mass marches, no COPs, no nuclear Greta. But the climate experience teaches us that ignoring a problem is no solution, and that a worldwide mobilisation can work. Six Minutes to Winter presents an unflinching view of the nuclear nightmare, but also describes how weapons can be taken off hair-trigger alert and ultimately abolished altogether. If human civilisation is to survive long term, we have no alternative.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Sigma
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781399410526
• Artikelnr.: 71869723

Autorenporträt

Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and campaigner whose books have drawn attention to the perils of global warming. He is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, and was Climate Advisor to the President of the Maldives from 2009 to 2011. He has contributed extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and numerous others. He is research lead at the Alliance for Science at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an affiliate of Cornell University, and has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on vaccines, climate and GMOs. He is co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign network RePlanet, launched in 2021 and now active in 12 countries.

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.'