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'Talking about the weather used to be small talk, now it's the hottest topic on Earth.
'We can't survive without Earth's atmosphere, yet most of the time we ignore it. We treat our atmosphere as a rubbish dump for our greenhouses gas emissions. Slowly but surely, what we are doing is changing Earth's climate.
'Atmospheric cuts through the many voices raised around climate change to tell the story of our atmosphere, what is putting our climate at risk and what we can do about it. This could be the most important book of your life.' (Source: back cover)
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Epigraph: Through greed, we have established an economy that destroys the web of life. We have changed our climate and drown in despair. Let oceans of justice flow. May we learn to sustain and renew the life of our Mother Earth. (Archbishop Desmond Tutu, prayer for the People's Climate March, September 2014).
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Dedication: To the members of Yarra Climate Action Now, past and present - ordinary people concerned about the state of our atmosphere and how we leave it for future generations ... and willing to do something about it.
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Each chapter of this book is prefaced with a short narrative that captures the essence of the chapter's content; primarily these are stories of ignorance and moments in history where human progress signals changes that would eventually contribute to the pollution causing climate change today.
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Books about the Australian Bushfires
Leanne Hall
(presenter),
Angela Crocombe
(presenter),
2020
18804892
2020
single work
podcast
'In the fourth episode of the Readings Kids Podcast, Leanne and Angela share books to help facilitate conversations about the recent Australian bushfires with kids, and also discuss the six books shortlisted for this year's Readings Children's Book Prize.'
Source: Soundcloud.
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y
Books about the Australian Bushfires
Leanne Hall
(presenter),
Angela Crocombe
(presenter),
2020
18804892
2020
single work
podcast
'In the fourth episode of the Readings Kids Podcast, Leanne and Angela share books to help facilitate conversations about the recent Australian bushfires with kids, and also discuss the six books shortlisted for this year's Readings Children's Book Prize.'
Source: Soundcloud.
Awards
- 2016 winner The Wilderness Society Environment Award for Children's Literature — Non-fiction