Earthshot, Colin Butfield
Earthshot, Colin Butfield
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Earthshot
How to Save Our Planet

Author: Colin Butfield, Jonnie Hughes, HRH Prince William

Narrator: Adam James, Christiana Figueres, David Attenborough, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Jonnie Hughes, Naoko Yamazaki, Penelope Rawlins

Unabridged: 9 hr 38 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: John Murray

Published: 09/30/2021


Synopsis

A book of action and optimism to save our planet.

With an introduction from Prince William and contributions from Sir David Attenborough, Shakira Mebarak, Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim, Naoko Yamazaki and Christiana Figueres, EARTHSHOT shows us how, by working together, we can solve earth's greatest challenges.

As Prince William, founder of The Earthshot Prize, said, 'The Earth is at a tipping point and we face a stark choice: either we continue as we are and irreparably damage our planet, or we remember our unique power as human beings and our continual ability to lead, innovate, and problem-solve. People can achieve great things. The next ten years present us with one of our greatest tests - a decade of action to repair the Earth.'

The Earthshot concept is simple: Urgency + Optimism = Action. We have ten years to turn the tide on the environmental crisis, but we need the world's best solutions and one shared goal - to save our planet.

It's not too late, but we need collective action now.

The Earthshots are unifying, ambitious goals for our planet which, if achieved by 2030, will improve life for all of us, for the rest of life on Earth, and for generations to come. They are to:

· Protect and Restore Nature
· Clean our Air
· Revive our Oceans
· Build a Waste-Free World
· Fix our Climate

EARTHSHOT: HOW TO SAVE OUR PLANET is the first definitive book about how these goals can tackle the environmental crisis. It is a critical contribution to the most important story of the decade.

(P)2021 Hodder & Stoughton Limited

About Colin Butfield

Colin Butfield is the co-founder and Director of Open Planet Studios. He has worked on numerous documentaries and short films including the BBC series Earthshot, Netflix features A Life on Our Planet and Breaking Boundaries, and the National Geographic feature documentary Ocean, also with David Attenborough. He is the co-author of Earthshot: How to Save Our Planet.

About Jonnie Hughes

Jonnie Hughes is an award-winning natural history TV producer, co-founder of Studio Silverback, and bestselling author and co-writer of Sir David Attenborough's A Life on Our Planet.

About David Attenborough

Sir David Attenborough is a broadcaster and naturalist whose television career is now in its seventh decade. Over that time he has established himself as the world's leading natural history programme maker with multiple landmark television series to his name. His recent book, A Life on Our Planet, co-authored with Jonnie Hughes, was an international bestseller.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Theresa on October 11, 2021

This was a tremendous book. One of those books that everyone needs to read. I’m not going to summarise what it’s about, the book description above encapsulates everything you need to know. What I am going to say is that this book has had quite an impact upon me. I thought that I was across environme......more

Goodreads review by Olivia on January 02, 2022

Earthshot provides a really useful array of ideas for tackling the climate crisis and I loved reading about new, current scientific breakthroughs (Let's get cows eating seaweed!) Definitely gives you a lot to think through, but it's very accessible. Initially I was skeptical about the optimistic spi......more

Goodreads review by Eleanor on December 26, 2021

This is a fascinating and deeply inspiring book. I expected it to be very depressing as we face so many environmental challenges that it can be quite overwhelming but although those challenges are made abundantly clear the subtitle is key - How to save our planet. This is a book telling of people wh......more

Goodreads review by Stuart on January 03, 2022

A potentially powerful book fatally undermined by two disappointing failures. Firstly, the complete lack of any references to source material makes this sadly unscientific: it's, at best, a long-form piece of journalism, and at worst runs the risk of being disregarded as a piece of well-meaning prop......more

Goodreads review by Alejandro on December 25, 2023

There are simply so many cool projects and organizations working in different ways to conquer the climate crisis, I won't be satisfied with my daily life if I'm not working for one of them. Why do we dump so much sewage in the ocean when all that nitrogen could replace up to half of the world's chem......more