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Now or Never

A Sustainable Future for Australia?

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Now or Never

By: Tim Flannery
Narrated by: Peter Byrne
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 Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth's regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge? This landmark essay by Tim Flannery is about sustainability, our search for it in the twenty-first century, and the impact it might have on the environmental threats that confront us today. Flannery discusses in detail three potential solutions to the most pressing of the sustainability challenges: climate change. He argues that Australia has a special responsibility when it comes to climate change, and that our prime minister could be a critical player on the global stage in Copenhagen in December 2009 - but only if we take swift and effective action and make sharp cuts in emissions. Brilliant and terrifying, Now or Never is a call to arms by Australia's leading thinker and writer on the natural world.©2008 Tim Flannery (P)2012 Bolinda Publishing Environment Science Sustainability
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Full of factuality , in parts outdated , but to the detriment of our situation which seems even more dire. The need for a whole political system shake up is required as the status quo has dropped the ball and fail to act aggressively on climate change . Real action, without compromise. NOW! I’m only borrowing this world from the future generations which because of our inaction is now not a certainty.

World change a necessity!

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Tim presents the information in such an interesting way and yet science is being denigrated by the ignorant leaders who we elect to govern our country

Why do we ignore our best advisors?

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In the spirit of reconciliation, Audible acknowledges the Traditional Custodians of country throughout Australia and their connections to land, sea and community. We pay our respect to their elders past and present and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today.