NOW OR NEVER: A SUSTAINABLE FUTURE FOR AUSTRALIA?
Book ID/图书代码: 01899509B31142
English Summary/英文概要: Now or Never is an essential book about the most urgent issue of our time: climate change.Tim Flannery begins by discussing the idea of sustainability, and asks whether humanity can rise to this challenge. He brings to life the latest climate science and its implications. And he discusses in fascinating detail three potential climate-change solutions, with special reference to Australia.
Brilliant and terrifying, Now or Never is a call to arms by Australia’s leading thinker and writer on the natural world.
This edition includes nine responses to Now or Never by leading figures, and Flannery’s reply. Writers include Peter Cosier, Richard Branson, David Foster, Ian Lowe, Barrie Pittock and Gwynne Dyer.
Chinese Summary/中文概要: “這部具有里程碑意義的論文由蒂姆•富蘭納所撰寫,講述的是關於我們在二十一世紀所尋找的可持續發展,和氣候變化可能對我們今天所面臨的環境威脅的影響。富蘭納詳細論述了三個可行性方案,解決可持續性最緊迫的挑戰:氣候變化。當談及到氣候變化的問題時,他認為,澳大利亞有一個特殊的責任,而且我們的總理,有沒有可能成為2009年12月在哥本哈根舉行的世界舞臺上的重要角色?但只要我們採取迅速和有效的行動,堅決地削減溫室氣體排放。傑出的和偉大的論點,《機不可失》是澳大利亞自然界的主要思想家和作家的戰鬥號令?—— 書後語 (Sandy)
Awards/获奖情况:蒂姆•富蘭納教授研究了最新氣候科學以及澳大利亞和世界正面臨的挑戰。他考慮到假設各國為避免一場全球性的災難,所應發揮的作用,及之後陸克文(澳洲前總理)政府需要去做的事情。這是一個必要的干預,邀請來自澳大利亞自然界的主要思想家和作家進行辯論和反思。
‘With scientific gravitas, complemented by the skilful use of layman’s language, Tim Flannery paints a serious picture of the planet’s future.’ —Richard Branson
About the Author/作者介绍: 作家、科學家、探險家以及環境保護主義者。他著有十多本作品,包括得獎且登上暢銷書榜首的《我在怪怪島的日子》(The Future Eaters and Throwim Way Leg)。富蘭納瑞是環境科學的先驅思想家,也是溫沃斯科學家關懷小組(the Wentworth Group of Concerned Scientists)的成員。他還是國家地理學會(National Geographic Society)的澳大利亞代表,以及澳洲野生管理委員會(Australian Wildlife Conservancy)的董事。探險文學家歐漢楠稱“他發現的新物種比達爾文還要多”,而他本人也在二〇〇七年被授予澳大利亞年度人物的稱號。富蘭納瑞目前居住在澳洲霍克斯貝利河上一間環保屋裡。伴隨著他的有他的妻子和許許多多的野生動物。
Tim Flannery has published numerous scientific papers and over a dozen books, including The Eternal Frontier, The Future Eaters, The Weather Makers, An Explorer’s Notebook and Now or Never: A Sustainable Future for Australia? A former director of the South Australia Museum, he now chairs the Copenhagen Climate Council and has made contributions of international significance to the fields of palaeontology, mammalogy and conservation. He was Australian of the year in 2007.
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