This is an essential book for understanding what is happening to our seas and oceans before they cause disaster and with solutions to protect them. The title alludes to the sea of human age threatened and endangered by our way of life. At the same time, everything we do affects us. The book tells about the problems of the seas, their causes and what needs to be done for a solution, in an entertaining and understandable language, based on real stories and scientific research. It is an indication that mistakes made can be corrected if we act now.
against sustainability
Everything is sustainable today, even the activities and companies that do the most obvious damage to the planet. “Sustainability has become a broken compass that takes us away from it with false promises of change, instead of moving us into the future,” the author writes. The book is based on the fact that in order to build a new world and rebuild the future, first of all it is necessary to break down the economic, environmental and social scaffolding on which current development is based. The blinding glare of empty promises of sustainability prevents us from seeing the truth.
To reduce
There is an overlooked simple fact: You cannot live on an infinitely growing planet with limited resources. Based on this logic, the book invites us to “save the life stolen from us, downsize many infrastructures, restore battered habitat, or bet on voluntary sobriety and simplicity.” Not giving up on his ideological positions, Carlos Taibo advocates progressive economic decline in order to live better. And here he discusses it with numbers, reasons and indisputable data.
intelligence
We share the planet with animals, but we torture them all the time. Far from extremist or radical positions, this book reveals the life of a particular animal: the pig. This study shows that they are intelligent and extraordinarily sociable, loving to play and sing to their puppies while caring for them; They have a good memory, a keen sense of direction, and an incredible mindset: if they want something, they get it. In fact, they have more in common with people than we’d like to admit. It has nothing to do with the traditional image we have.
hope book
The great primate expert is the godmother of the next generation of environmental activists on the planet. In this book, she draws on her long experience in advocating for nature to teach us how to find strength in the face of the climate crisis and explain why she still has hope for the world’s future. Along with co-author Douglas Abrams, both tell concrete stories and show the way to create hope in ourselves and others, even in a time as troubling as the planet is currently going through.
weather book
In this book, the renowned activist brings together scientists, experts, activists and writers like Thomas Piketty, Margaret Atwood, David Wallace-Wells or Naomi Klein to provide the most rigorous and up-to-date information on the climate emergency we live in. . It also explains the solutions we still have. How the climate works, how the planet is changing, how it affects us, what we do and what we should do are the questions this book answers. Critics have described it as the “Climate Bible” because of the high level of its writers.
Spain is not for rivers
With a provocative title, this book analyzes the situation of 40 of the approximately 30,000 rivers that flow through our country. It is a selection of streams that illustrates the attacks these areas have suffered: reservoirs that impede the circulation and regeneration of waters, the destructive influx of exotic species, pollution from industry, their indiscriminate use to generate energy, and over-irrigation. All these factors are destroying our rivers. And despite climate change, the proposed “solutions” are the same: damming rivers and compressing them further.
behavior of birds
Jennifer Ackermann has already revealed the Intelligence and Social Skills of Birds in her book The Creativity of Birds, but in this new volume she shows us that these animals do not have a single mode of existence, but an incredible diversity of behaviour. even within the same species. Focusing on the daily activities of birds, the author shows us the incredible mental flexibility of birds with his unusual and extreme behavior. This work brings us closer to these winged beings that we know so little about despite being so close to us.
wounded earth
As early as 1975, Miguel Delibes showed his concern for the destruction of the environment in his acceptance speech to the Spanish Royal Academy. Wounded Earth is the last work he wrote in 2005 with his son, the famous scientist Miguel Delibes de Castro, who has been working on ecological problems for years. Both dialogues in this book are about the future of the planet. The alarming signs the father predicted almost half a century ago have worsened over the years: climate change, desertification, extinction or the greenhouse effect.
quiet spring
An enduring study of environmental literature and a touchstone for three generations of conservationists. It focuses on the pollution to which the Earth is exposed by chemicals. This book, published in 1962, was the first to denounce the harmful effects of extensive use of DDT in agriculture. The effect was such that the US Government banned this pesticide, revised its policy on these substances in general, and established the Environmental Protection Agency. Rachel L. Carson’s book is an environmental movement classic, and she actually helped found it.
revival
This book focuses on agriculture and the impact the need to feed so many people has on the planet. The author describes how we cut down forests, kill wildlife, and poison rivers and oceans to feed ourselves. But it also offers an alternative. Drawing on incredible advances in soil ecology, the author reveals how more food can be produced with less farming. It describes certain systems that have succeeded in changing the current pattern of food production in order to survive without having to kill the planet.
we are the thinking water
More than ever, drought, pollution, waste and climate change threaten this essential resource without which life is impossible. In this work, the author takes a tour of the functions of water in biology and geography, “desiring to irrigate the sensibilities in search of accomplices of the first raw material of life.” The many, sometimes unexpected, benefits this element brings to us make us aware of the need to protect it. By the way, think with your brain, which is mostly water.
A life on our planet
This charismatic figure in research and conservation, at the age of 94, wrote what is now his last book. It revises or balances what nature means in it and the decline it has experienced. “The tragedy of our time is unfolding around us, barely perceptible from day to day: the loss of our planet’s wilderness and biodiversity.” This is the story of how we did it and how we can fix it if we act now. “We just need willpower,” he says, to restore the world we live in and depend on.
last month
When there should be no bears left on Bear Island, little April and her father see a figure making big strides on the horizon. They don’t know if it’s an illusion or if they actually saw a bear. This successful and entertaining book combines adventure with reflection on what is happening as a result of the planet’s ecological crisis. Ideal for introducing the youngest.
we are change
With good illustrations and infographics, this large format book shows what can be done for the planet through concrete action. Its axis is the special case of young activists making real changes. Recommended from the age of 12, this is a helpful book that shows that we can all do things that are often easy to help improve the world we live in.
We are the last generation that can save the planet
This is a defense of five young voices in favor of the environment. Connie Isla, Mónica Rosquillas, Claudia Ayuso, Patricia Ramos and Mariana Matija come together in this book to affirm their responsibility to stop climate change. Together they warn of the climate emergency and specifically appeal to the last generation, the youth, who can change everything and prevent disaster.
Everything good is free and wild
This is a selection of some of the best texts the author has written through reflections on beauty and luck, friendship and imagination, fashion and diet, freedom and rebellion, music and silence, Indians and wisdom, simplicity and money, travel and solitude. , trees and birds, work and love, the seasons and the endless cycle of life. An antidote to the toxic society.
A bag of potato chips in Polynesia
A novel that blends fantasy and reality to understand climate change. Shiya lives on the small Polynesian island of Takuu until rising waters threaten to destroy the island. Shiya finds a bag of chips in the water from afar. Together with his friend, the big red-winged bird, they travel to the potato factory to discover the origin of the bag.