This Saturday is the 22nd Earth Day and the next day is the 23rd Sunday Book Day. These are two excellent opportunities to buy some of the latest environmental broadcast news. The range of topics is wide and with top-level writers. From global warming to the decline of rivers, the behavior of birds, the impact of agriculture or the role of the oceans, national and international authors explain to us how the situation is right now. This is a selection of some of the latest and greatest games:
anthropogenic
Cristina Romera. ESPASA
256 s. / €18,90
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
Andreu Escriva. HARP
256 s. / €18,90
Everything is ‘sustainable’ today, even the activities and companies that most obviously harm 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
Carlos Taibo. Editorial Alliance
256 s. / €12.82
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.
THE INTELLIGENCE OF PIGS
Matt Whyman. ARIEL
160 pages. / €28,80
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.
THE BOOK OF HOPE
Jane Goodall / D. Abrams. wage earners
272 p. / €20,42
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.
CLIMATE BOOK
Greta Thunberg, ed. lumen
464 pages. / €26,50
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 A COUNTRY FOR RIVERS
Ramon Soria. Editorial Alliance
352 p. / €18,95
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’ remain the same: damming rivers and compressing them further.
BEHAVIOR OF BIRDS
Jennifer Ackerman. ariel
488 p. / €20,80
Jennifer Ackermann has already demonstrated the intelligence and social prowess of birds in her previous book ‘The Birds’ Ingenuity’, but in this new volume she shows us that these animals do not have one single mode of existence, but an incredible diversity. Behaviors, 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
Miguel Delibes. destination
208 p. / €9.45
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 Lands is the last work he wrote in 2005 with his son Miguel Delibes de Castro, a famous scientist 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.
REGENES
George Monbiot. captain swing
384 pages. / €22.80
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
Joaquin Araujo. criticism
336 p. / €18,90
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
David Attenborough. criticism
320 pages. / €18,90
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.
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