EAN: 9781408888438

CLIMATE JUSTICE - MARY ROBINSON KARTONIERT (TB)

_______________   'As an advocate for the hungry and the hunted  the forgotten and the ignored
Mary Robinson has not only shone a light on human suffering  but illuminated a better future
for our world' BARACK OBAMA   SHORTLISTED FOR THE IRISH BOOK AWARDS 2018   Holding her first
grandchild in her arms in 2003  Mary Robinson was struck by the uncertainty of the world he had
been born into. Before his fiftieth birthday  he would share the planet with more than nine
billion people - people battling for food  water  and shelter in an increasingly volatile
climate. The faceless  shadowy menace of climate change had become  in an instant  deeply
personal.  Mary Robinson's mission would lead her all over the world  from Malawi to Mongolia 
and to a heartening revelation: that an irrepressible driving force in the battle for climate
justice could be found at the grassroots level  mainly among women  many of them mothers and
grandmothers like herself.  From Sharon Hanshaw  the Mississippi matriarch whose campaign began
in her East Biloxi hair salon and culminated in her speaking at the United Nations  to
Constance Okollet  a small farmer who transformed the fortunes of her ailing community in rural
Uganda  Robinson met with ordinary people whose resilience and ingenuity had already unlocked
extraordinary change.   Powerful and deeply humane  Climate Justice is a stirring manifesto on
one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time  and a lucid  affirmative  and
well-argued case for hope.

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