This Is Not A Drill

This Is Not A Drill
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Publisher : Penguin UK
Total Pages : 186
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ISBN-10 : 9780141991450
ISBN-13 : 0141991453
Rating : 4/5 (50 Downloads)

Synopsis This Is Not A Drill by : Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion are inspiring a whole generation to take action on climate breakdown. Now you can become part of the movement - and together, we can make history. It's time. This is our last chance to do anything about the global climate and ecological emergency. Our last chance to save the world as we know it. Now or never, we need to be radical. We need to rise up. And we need to rebel. Extinction Rebellion is a global activist movement of ordinary people, demanding action from Governments. This is a book of truth and action. It has facts to arm you, stories to empower you, pages to fill in and pages to rip out, alongside instructions on how to rebel - from organising a roadblock to facing arrest. By the time you finish this book you will have become an Extinction Rebellion activist. Act now before it's too late.

SUMMARY - This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook By Extinction Rebellion

SUMMARY - This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook By Extinction Rebellion
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Publisher : Shortcut Edition
Total Pages : 24
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Synopsis SUMMARY - This Is Not A Drill: An Extinction Rebellion Handbook By Extinction Rebellion by : Shortcut Edition

* Our summary is short, simple and pragmatic. It allows you to have the essential ideas of a big book in less than 30 minutes. By reading this summary, you will learn why and how you must act now to save the planet from a climate catastrophe. You will also learn : that there are only ten years left to reverse global warming; that some populations are at risk of extinction if nothing is done; that modern society has never cared about environmental problems; that today's unequal society is closely linked to ecological disaster; that Extinction Rebellion is the first non-violent movement to act for the planet. Planet Earth is, according to scientists, on the verge of the sixth mass extinction. Indeed, biodiversity is in great danger because of the way society currently behaves. Governments and businesses are acting only for financial gain, without concern for environmental preservation. If people do not act now, the course of global warming will soon be irreversible and the future of society uncertain. Thanks to the organization Extinction Rebellion, discover how a protest movement can save the planet! *Buy now the summary of this book for the modest price of a cup of coffee!

Common Sense for the 21st Century

Common Sense for the 21st Century
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Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Total Pages : 114
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ISBN-10 : 9781645020011
ISBN-13 : 1645020010
Rating : 4/5 (11 Downloads)

Synopsis Common Sense for the 21st Century by : Roger Hallam

“Brilliant, wise, profound and persuasive. Common Sense for the 21st Century will come to be recognized as a classic of political theory.”—George Monbiot, via Twitter An urgent, essential, and practical call to action from a cofounder of Extinction Rebellion What can we all do to avert catastrophe and avoid extinction? Roger Hallam has answers. In Common Sense for the 21st Century, Roger Hallam, cofounder of Extinction Rebellion, outlines how movements around the world need to come together now to start doing what works: engaging in mass civil disobedience to make real change happen. The book gives people the tools to understand not only why mass disruption, mass arrests, and mass sacrifice are necessary but also details how to carry out acts of civil disobedience effectively, respectfully and nonviolently. It bypasses contemporary political theory, and instead is inspired by Thomas Paine, the pragmatic 18th-century revolutionary whose pamphlet Common Sense sparked the American Revolution. Common Sense for the 21st Century urges us to confront the truth about climate change and argues forcefully that only a revolution of society and the state, similar to the turn that Paine urged the Americans to take into the political unknown, can save us now.

As the World Burns

As the World Burns
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Publisher : Seven Stories Press
Total Pages : 225
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ISBN-10 : 9781583229590
ISBN-13 : 1583229590
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis As the World Burns by : Derrick Jensen

Two of America's most talented activists team up to deliver a bold and hilarious satire of modern environmental policy in this fully illustrated graphic novel. The U.S. government gives robot machines from space permission to eat the earth in exchange for bricks of gold. A one-eyed bunny rescues his friends from a corporate animal-testing laboratory. And two little girls figure out the secret to saving the world from both of its enemies (and it isn't by using energy-efficient light bulbs or biodiesel fuel). As the World Burns will inspire you to do whatever it takes to stop ecocide before it’s too late.

Challenge Everything

Challenge Everything
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Publisher : Pavilion Children's
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 9781843654827
ISBN-13 : 1843654822
Rating : 4/5 (27 Downloads)

Synopsis Challenge Everything by : Blue Sandford

Challenge Everything. Act Now. Change the World. This book will show you how. Blue Sandford was named by The Times as one of "Britain's Greta Thunbergs" (Dec 2019) The main concern of young people is climate change and how to combat it. This book, the only official handbook from Extinction Rebellion Youth, will help you to change your life and change the world for the better. Written by a founder member of Extinction Rebellion Youth London, this is no greenwashing book - it's an important call to action. A manifesto to show young people how to save the planet by questioning modern life. This book asks you to challenge everything – challenge government (protest and take peaceful action where necessary), challenge business (decide who you want to support, decide who you want to boycott), and above all to challenge yourself – how can you change your life to make a difference. Filled with stories, essays, slogans and inspiring illustrations, this book covers consuming, actioning, boycotting, campaigning, striking, questioning, rewilding and reconnecting with our planet.

Climate Justice

Climate Justice
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Publisher : Pluto Press (UK)
Total Pages : 160
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ISBN-10 : 0745341829
ISBN-13 : 9780745341828
Rating : 4/5 (29 Downloads)

Synopsis Climate Justice by : Chris Saltmarsh

The climate crisis keeps getting worse. We need to rethink how we fight the most important battle of our lives

Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion
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ISBN-10 : 0648840514
ISBN-13 : 9780648840510
Rating : 4/5 (14 Downloads)

Synopsis Extinction Rebellion by : Rupert Read

'This is a book about what might well turn out to be the most important social movement in history.' - David Graeber, author of 'The Democracy Project' 'Activist-philosopher Rupert Read, a key thinker of Extinction Rebellion, has collected a treasure trove of foundational essays that will be immensely valuable for activists around the world. The book is incisive, pertinent, self-critical, well-written, and, in the XR way, occasionally cheeky.' - Ken Ward, protagonist in the documentary, 'The Reluctant Radical''Rupert Read and Samuel Alexander take us deep inside the debates, tactics, and passion that have bound XR together from its founding days, brining us radical reflections from the frontlines of rebellion. If you want to understand the movement that is finally waking us up, read this book.'- Kate Raworth, author of 'Doughnut Economics''From the eruption of XR in our lives in late 2018, Rupert Read has been closely involved in the organisation as an advisor, influencer, spokesperson and occasional critic. These fascinating essays read like dispatches from the front line, crackling with urgency, tempered by timely reflections, and reminding us of the scale of the challenge ahead as we rebuild our shattered, post-coronavirus economies.'- Jonathon Porritt, former Director of the UK Sustainable Development Commission and of Friends of the Earth

Despite The State: Why India Lets Its People Down And How They Cope

Despite The State: Why India Lets Its People Down And How They Cope
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Publisher : Westland
Total Pages : 240
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ISBN-10 : 9789395073417
ISBN-13 : 9395073411
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Despite The State: Why India Lets Its People Down And How They Cope by : M. Rajshekhar

About the Book A LUCID, NECESSARY ACCOUNT OF HOW DRASTICALLY THE INDIAN STATE FAILS ITS CITIZENS The story of democratic failure is usually read at the level of the nation, while the primary bulwarks of democratic functioning—the states—get overlooked. This is a tale of India’s states, of why they build schools but do not staff them with teachers; favour a handful of companies so much that others slip into losses; wage water wars with their neighbours while allowing rampant sand mining and groundwater extraction; harness citizens’ right to vote but brutally crack down on their right to dissent. Reporting from six states over thirty-three months, award-winning investigative journalist M. Rajshekhar delivers a necessary account of a deep crisis that has gone largely unexamined.

The Shock Doctrine of the Left

The Shock Doctrine of the Left
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 140
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ISBN-10 : 9781509528585
ISBN-13 : 150952858X
Rating : 4/5 (85 Downloads)

Synopsis The Shock Doctrine of the Left by : Graham Jones

Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have long been exploited by the state to impose privatization, cuts and rampant free markets. This book argues that the left can use such moments of chaos to achieve emancipation. Graham Jones illustrates how everyone can help to exploit these shocks and bring about a new world of compassion and care. He examines how combining mutually reinforcing strategies of ‘smashing, building, healing and taming’ can become the basis of a unified left. His vivid personal experience underpins a compelling, practical vision for activism, from the scale of the individual body to the global social movement. This bold book is a toolkit for revolution for activists and radical millennials everywhere.

Being Ecological

Being Ecological
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Publisher : MIT Press
Total Pages : 215
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ISBN-10 : 9780262038041
ISBN-13 : 0262038048
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Being Ecological by : Timothy Morton

A book about ecology without information dumping, guilt inducing, or preaching to the choir. Don't care about ecology? You think you don't, but you might all the same. Don't read ecology books? This book is for you. Ecology books can be confusing information dumps that are out of date by the time they hit you. Slapping you upside the head to make you feel bad. Grabbing you by the lapels while yelling disturbing facts. Handwringing in agony about “What are we going to do?” This book has none of that. Being Ecological doesn't preach to the eco-choir. It's for you—even, Timothy Morton explains, if you're not in the choir, even if you have no idea what choirs are. You might already be ecological. After establishing the approach of the book (no facts allowed!), Morton draws on Kant and Heidegger to help us understand living in an age of mass extinction caused by global warming. He considers the object of ecological awareness and ecological thinking: the biosphere and its interconnections. He discusses what sorts of actions count as ecological—starting a revolution? going to the garden center to smell the plants? And finally, in “Not a Grand Tour of Ecological Thought,” he explores a variety of current styles of being ecological—a range of overlapping orientations rather than preformatted self-labeling. Caught up in the us-versus-them (or you-versus-everything else) urgency of ecological crisis, Morton suggests, it's easy to forget that you are a symbiotic being entangled with other symbiotic beings. Isn't that being ecological?