Fighting in a World on Fire: The Next Generation's Guide to Protecting the Climate and Saving Our Future

Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe and are one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice. Adults' solutions are too little, and far too late, and the measures in unenforceable international agreements won't halt our reliance on fossil fuels. To bring a stop to climate destruction, climate justice can use bold actions such as mass protest, awareness, and legal appeals, and why society considers profit for oil companies more important than the future of young people and the health of our shared environment.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 07 February 2023
Publisher: Verso Books

Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe. Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice,and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable. As Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear,solutions offered by adults are far too little,far too late: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won t halt our reliance on fossil fuels,or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet livable. What kinds of drastic steps are needed? What kind of bold actions can the climate justice begin using to bring a stop to climate destruction,and that can be employed alongside existing strategies of mass protest,awareness,and legal appeals? Why does our society consider profit for oil companies more important than the future of young people and the health of our shared environment?

In this adaptation of Andreas Malm s best-selling book on the need for a bolder,more confrontational climate justice movement, How to Blow Up a Pipeline these urgent questions are brought to the most important audience of all: those who are growing up in a world on fire.

Young people are inheriting a world of climate catastrophe.

Young people are also one of the strongest forces leading movements for climate justice, and to halt the fossil fuel emissions that are making our Earth unlivable.

As Greta Thunberg and the Fridays for the Future movement have made clear, solutions offered by adults are far too little, far too late: the measures in unenforceable international agreements won't halt our reliance on fossil fuels, or take the drastic steps humans need to take in order to keep our planet livable.

What kinds of drastic steps are needed? What kind of bold actions can the climate justice begin using to bring a stop to climate destruction, and that can be employed alongside existing strategies of mass protest, awareness, and legal appeals? Why does our society consider profit for oil companies more important than the future of young people and the health of our shared environment?

In this adaptation of Andreas Malm's best-selling book on the need for a bolder, more confrontational climate justice movement, How to Blow Up a Pipeline, these urgent questions are brought to the most important audience of all: those who are growing up in a world on fire.

Weight: 250g
Dimension: 198 x 129 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781804291252