What If We Stopped Pretending: By: Jonathan Franzen [Audiobook]

Author: Jonathan Franzen
Narrated by: Christopher Ragland

The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can’t prevent it.  

‘If you care about the planet, and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable, and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world’s inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.’

The honesty and realism of Jonathan Franzen’s writings on climate have been widely denounced and just as widely celebrated. Here, in his definitive statement on the subject, Franzen confronts the world’s failure to avert destabilising climate change and takes up the question: Now what?

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Book Information
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 Title:                  What If We Stopped Pretending?
 Book Copyright:         2021 Jonathan Franzen	
 Recording Copyright:    2021 HarperCollins Publishers Limited
 Publisher:              Fourth Estate
 Genre:                  Literature & Fiction
 Author:                 Jonathan Franzen
 Narrator:               Christopher Ragland
 Ripper:                 familiarr_Strangerr
 Source Format:          Audible AAXC
 Source Sample Rate:     44.1 kHz
 Source Channels:        2
 Source Bitrate:         128 kbps
 Lossless Encode:        Yes
 Encoded Codec:          AAC
 Encoded Sample Rate:    44.1 kHz
 Encoded Channels:       2
 Encoded Bitrate:        128 kbps
 Encode Size:            44.6 MiB
 Release Date:           21-Jan-2021
 Duration:               49 minutes, 7 seconds
 Chapters:               5
Book Description
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The climate change is coming. To prepare for it, we need to admit that we can't prevent it.  
'Today, the scientific evidence verges on irrefutable. If you're younger than 60, you have a good chance of witnessing the radical destabilisation of life on earth - massive crop failures, apocalyptic fires, imploding economies, epic flooding, hundreds of millions of refugees fleeing regions made uninhabitable by extreme heat or permanent drought. If you're under 30, you're all but guaranteed to witness it.
If you care about the planet and about the people and animals who live on it, there are two ways to think about this. You can keep on hoping that catastrophe is preventable and feel ever more frustrated or enraged by the world's inaction. Or you can accept that disaster is coming, and begin to rethink what it means to have hope.'
This is Jonathan Franzen's controversial New Yorker essay, published as a single volume that discusses a planet on the cusp of and what and how individuals can respond to that.

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