[PDF] The Making Of The Representative For Planet 8 eBook

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
Page : 45 pages
File Size : 13,67 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Science fiction, English
ISBN : 0006547184

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Science fiction. Doris Lessing's celebrated space fiction set in an extraordinary cosmos where the fate of the Earth is influenced by the rivalries and interactions of three powerful galactic empires.

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,65 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN :

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"Planet 8, a prosperous world with intelligent, vital inhabitants, is transformed by an Ice Age, a change that causes a critical variation in lifestyle and a drastic reappraisal of the meaning and value of life." --

Author : Doris Lessing
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 49,33 MB
Release : 1994
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780006547198

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From Doris Lessing, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, this is the first instalment in the visionary novel cycle 'Canopus in Argos: Archives'. The story of the final days of our planet is told through the reports of Johor, an emissary sent from Canopus. Earth, now named Shikasta (the Stricken) by the kindly, paternalistic Canopeans who colonised it many centuries ago, is under the influence of the evil empire of Puttiora. War, famine, disease and environmental disasters ravage the planet. To Johor, mankind is a 'totally crazed species', racing towards annihilation: his orders to save humanity set him what seems to be an impossible task. Blending myth, fable and allegory, Doris Lessing's astonishing visionary creation both reflects and redefines the history of our own world from its earliest beginnings to an inevitable, tragic self-destruction.

Author : Mike Hulme
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 102 pages
File Size : 50,41 MB
Release : 2014-06-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 0745685269

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Climate change seems to be an insurmountable problem. Political solutions have so far had little impact. Some scientists are now advocating the so-called 'Plan B', a more direct way of reducing the rate of future warming by reflecting more sunlight back to space, creating a thermostat in the sky. In this book, Mike Hulme argues against this kind of hubristic techno-fix. Drawing upon a distinguished career studying the science, politics and ethics of climate change, he shows why using science to fix the global climate is undesirable, ungovernable and unattainable. Science and technology should instead serve the more pragmatic goals of increasing societal resilience to weather risks, improving regional air quality and driving forward an energy technology transition. Seeking to reset the planet’s thermostat is not the answer.