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Saving earth : climate change and the fight for our future
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- Summary
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"A timely and important illustrated nonfiction guide for middle grade readers about the history of our fight against climate change, and how young people today can rise to action."--
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- Creator
- Olugbemisola Rhuday-Perkovich ; pictures by Tim Foley ; introduction by Nathaniel Rich
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- New York : Farrar Straus Giroux, 2022
- ©2022
- Physical Details
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- ix, 200 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780374313050, 0374313059
- OCLC
- on1259294237
- "Adapted, in part, from Losing Earth: A Recent History by Nathaniel Rich, published by Farrar Straus Giroux, 2018."--Title page verso.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction by Nathaniel Rich -- Part I: Where we are. Letting old habits die, hard -- What is climate change, and where did it come from? -- No justice, no peace -- Part II: Voices crying out in the wilderness. A history of protest -- Sounding the alarm -- On the brink -- From reaction to no action -- A hole in the sky changes everything -- Running out of time -- Pushback -- Missed opportunity -- Part III: Handling the truth. That was then, this is now (and then) -- Time for change -- The climate justice movement -- Tomorrow people -- Give light, and people will find a way
Subjects
- Climatic changes -- Juvenile literature.
- Green movement -- Juvenile literature.
- Climatic changes.
Children's Subject Heading
- Green movement.
Children's Subject Heading