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The Climate Book created by Greta Thunberg: Book of the Week:  Ep 5 - What Next?

Book of the Week:  Ep 5 - What Next?

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Selected essays on climate change and doing the seemingly impossible.

Greta Thunberg, Wanjira Mathai and Robin Wall Kimmerer explore ways to create a more hopeful future for our planet. Read by Greta Thunberg, Werchue Opia and Nancy Crane.

Today's selected essays on climate change are by Greta Thunberg, the Kenyan environmentalist and activist, Wanjira Mathai and Robin Wall Kimmerer, writer and founder and director of the Center for Native Peoples and the Environment in the US. Here they explore ways to create a more hopeful future for our planet. We also   Greta Thunberg,  Weruche Opia and Nancy Crane read.

Greta Thunberg’s school strikes and speeches shook the world and inspired leaders and people around the world address the urgency of climate change.

Now, with The Climate Book she has created a deep understanding of how the problems we face are all interconnected and what’s at stake, by partnering with more than a hundred scientists, engineers, philosophers, journalists, activists and writers. Alongside them Greta shares her own views on what she’s learned and what’s next.

The Climate Book is a portrait of a planet on the brink of a climate catastrophe. It shows us what needs to be done so that our world can remain habitable for all of humanity for generations to come.

You can watch Amol Rajan interview Greta Thunberg on Tuesday, 18th October on BBC2.


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