Funny Weather
Reading cartoonist Kate Evans’ Funny Weather I couldn’t help making comparisons with Al Gore’s documentary, An Inconvenient Truth. Both set out to bring to a popular audience the science of climate change, its horrifying implications and the urgent need for us all to take dramatic action. But whereas An Inconvenient Truth takes you to the ‘OK everyone, panic!’ precipice and then leaves you dangling over the edge, the final chapter of Funny Weather is brazenly devoted to ‘Saving The World’. Evans – whose green credentials, unlike Gore’s, are squeaky clean – tackles the follies of jet-setting, offsetting, carbon sequestration and nuclear proliferation head-on and with humour. Her vision of ordinary people switching to low-carbon lifestyles, coming together in an unstoppable movement for political change and ‘sorting it out’ is inspiring. Buy this book, read it, give it away. Then, as Kate says, ‘better get on with it’.
- Product information
- by Kate Evans
- Star rating
- Product link
- http://www.MyriadEditions.com
- Product number
- ISBN 0 9549309 3 2
- Publisher
- Myriad Editions
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Voices from the margins:
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- Poetry Slam in Zimbabwe
- The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. The video features four of the poets.
Published by Pambazuka News.
- Iranian women speak out
- 3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
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- Benny from West Papua on Corporate Power
- Vinayan from India on agriculture
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