The Future We Choose: 'Everyone should read this book' MATT HAIG

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Engage in politics. Vote, protest, speak up. Especially the young folks. Politicians look to the big money donors until they start to get scared when public opinion turns against them. Even corporations are starting to get worried about climate change, and they will listen if their customers vote with their money. She said that though it may take a “miracle”, she is still holding out hope that some fossil fuel companies will “actually stand up and lead the herd” when it comes to climate action. Thanks, that's very helpful. You've nailed it! I agree with every one of your assessments. Here are a few more comments in case they help. Wouldn't it be more correct to say "I will take the exam in 6 months/ 6 months from now" to talk about the future? Why? At a closing session of the UN climate ambition summit on Wednesday, Al Jaber said “we are not powerless” to overcome the climate crisis. And earlier this week, Al Jaber wrote an op-ed in Fortune magazine calling on governments and the private sector to place more focus on international climate finance.

A book that shepherds climate activism from changing mental states to changing the world. . . . Th e authors recommend a mindset for climate activism that rests on three attitudes: radical optimism, endless abundance, and radical regeneration.”— Forbes This could be the most important wake-up call of our times.”—Professor Klaus Schwab, CEO World Economic Forum I use the present simple for future I must happen in the present and happened in the past and future and I avoid giving instructionsFigueres for years argued that oil and gas companies should have a seat at the table in climate policymaking discussions, but in June wrote an op-ed in Al Jazeera entitled: “I thought fossil fuel firms could change. I was wrong.” One effect of this huge increase in people living in urban areas is the rise of the megacity, which is a city that has more than 10 million inhabitants. There are now cities with even more than that. Tokyo, Japan, for example, has nearly 40 million residents. Another effect of urbanization is urban sprawl. Urban sprawl is when the population of a city becomes dispersed over an increasingly large geographical area. This movement from higher density urban cores to lower density suburbs means that as cities expand, they often begin to take up significant tracts of land formerly used for agriculture. Sprawl also increases the need for travel infrastructure, such as roads, because people’s homes are likely to be farther away from where they work and the amenities they enjoy. Sequential Crises across the world Join thousands of others in taking up membership of the Earth.Org Movement.

I expect most people who read this book already do most of the recommended 10 actions such as challenge consumerism, plant trees, source their power from renewable energy,active on politics and eat less meat. Saying that I liked the ten actions. Overall its a good book and the optimism aspect I agreed with. The chapter on What you can do now was a good way to end the book.

Similar to the previous question, both will and going to are correct and plausible answers! Without more contextual information, we cannot know for sure which one the speaker intends.

Is it possible to use be going to when simply giving information with no emphasize on other purposes of expression? The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis is a passionate ode to reality, a powerful call to action and a tour de force written by experts in their respective fields and immaculately and comprehensively researched to ensure it is equal parts accurate and fascinating. Although not an issue for me due to knowing this area quite well I am pleased to report that it’s a highly accessible read even for those with no prior knowledge and/or interest in the area. It is not tough to decide which world we or future generations want to live in. The vivid descriptions of these worlds with real life examples is emotionally powerful to convince readers to remove their heads out of the sand and face our existential threat head on. It is not all gloom and doom and we, collectively, can still turn the trajectory of human survival from an ultimate doom to a regenerative world.The Future We Choose a guidebook for climate activism and active participation. It also functions, in a way, as a kind of climate self-help book for the many who feel crushed under the ‘fatal knowledge’ of everything to come. In this way, their book fills a large but closing gap in the climate narrative, where hopelessness and incapacitating nihilism have the monopoly. Yet it is to the authors’ credit that the story of optimism and hope that they tell is not a whitewashed or reductive one. The book does not turn a blind eye to the true, horrifying depths of the crisis. They instead show that a gritty, grounded optimism is always available to us, even as we look at the crisis dead-on.

The world population has grown significantly and our economies have become more industrialized over the past few hundred years. As a result, many more people have moved into cities. This process is known as urbanization. Even after cities emerged, however, a large majority of people lived and worked in rural areas. It was not until large-scale industrialization began in the eighteenth century that cities really began to boom. Nearly half of all people now live in urban areas. They are attracted by jobs in manufacturing and the professions, as well as by increased opportunities for education and entertainment. It's not exactly like we have a choice. Either transform our entire economy from an extract and burn model to a grow and regenerate model, or watch the whole thing fall apart anyway. I can understand why there are so many climate deniers- the scope of the changes necessary are too much to comprehend, so they instead ignore the whole thing. Some are welcoming the coming climate apocalypse, assuming either that Jesus will come to rescue them, or that their privilege will keep the effects bearable.Don't fixate on Gross Domestic Product, which doesn't take into account externalities like pollution and look to the Happy Planet Index for true economic health. In the first sentence, 'I won't call him' is speaking about a future time, for example, Wednesday morning. In the second sentence, Wednesday morning has already passed, so we speak about it with a past simple verb. We say 'would be working late' because it expresses a past belief about a future in the past, but 'didn't call him' is stated from the perspective of the present. See yourself as a citizen first, consumer second. Become a more responsible consumer. (Which is hard to do in an age of materialism and individuality) Hello. Could you please help me? Are the two forms Ok? Some teachers say that the latter is not correct.