CHRIS SEARLE recommends a work of love and deep admiration for a great musician
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IAN SINCLAIR recommends a book that points to ‘deep societal transformation’ as the only way to arrest climate change
DISSUADED: Disengaged members of the public watch Extinction Rebellion demonstrators in London last year
KENNY MacASKILL relishes a fictionalised account of the life and death of the principled Irish anti-colonialist, executed for betraying his English imperial masters
FIONA O’CONNOR admires an ambitious first novel that loosens South Africa’s rainbow collective to examine the racial tensions within
Aussie mining corporation murder, Liverpudlian ex-cop amnesia, a naive vigilante tries to reset capitalism, and the riddle of the dead psychoanalyst
SYLVIA HIKINS is persuaded by an entertaining play that the true miracle of Lourdes would be for attitudes toward disability to change
JAMIE BRITTON recommends this fine analysis of the architectural, ecological and infrastructural destruction of the Gaza Strip
The Climate Majority Project: Setting the stage for a mainstream, urgent climate movement
Co-edited by Rupert Read, Liam Kavanagh and Rosie Bell
London Publishing Partnership, £12
“WE haven’t yet exceeded the bounds of viable human civilisation, but we’re getting close,” top climate scientist Professor Michael Mann warned last year. “If we keep going [with carbon emissions], then all bets are off.”
This is why, in 2021, UN secretary-general Antonio Guterres called for “immediate, rapid and large-scale” cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
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