Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change

Are We Screwed?: How a New Generation is Fighting to Survive Climate Change
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He concludes that despite the presence of a climate denier in the White House, millennials are not going to be screwed--if they take action now. VERDICT Young and old activists alike will be inspired by this hopeful call for change." - Starred Review, Library Journal"Dembicki's profiles are wide-ranging and well-researched. Young people must stand up for their rights. But they also must know what to ask for. Are We Screwed? tells the stories of the people and the generation who not only see the need to improve, but won’t settle until they do." - Paul Nicklen, co-founder of SeaLegacy and National Geographic photographer. "In this spirited manifesto against the status quo, journalist Dembicki highlights the stories of Millenni
This book will forever change how you view the biggest existential challenge of our era and redefine the generation now battling against the odds to solve it.. Millions of people his age want to radically change our world, and they are at the forefront of resistance to the politicians and CEOs steering our planet towards disaster.In Are We Screwed?, Dembicki gives a firsthand account of this movement, and the shift in generational values behind it, through the stories of young people fighting for their survival. It's also the last generation able to do something about them. It begins with a student who abandons society to live in the rainforest and ends with a Muslim feminist fomenting a political revolution. We meet a Brooklyn artist terrifying the oil industry, a Norwegian scienti
He was born in 1986. . Geoff lives in Vancouver, British Columbia. Geoff Dembicki has contributed to the New York Times, Foreign policy, Vice, the Atlantic, the Toronto Star, and the Tyee, the independent online publication where the idea for this book began as a series called "Are We Screwed?" He's received media fellowships from the Asia Pacific Foundation of Can