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• Title:Climate justice : hope, resilience, and the fight for a sustainable future / Mary Robinson with Caitríona Palmer.
  
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• Author/Creator:Robinson, Mary, 1944- author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Palmer, Caitríona, author.
  
• Published/Created:New York : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2018.
  ©2018
  

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  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: GE220 .R63 2018
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Environmental justice.
  Climatic changes--Social aspects.
  
• Description:xii, 162 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
  
• Summary:"An urgent call to arms by one of the most important voices in the international fight against climate change, sharing inspiring stories and offering vital lessons for the path forward." -- From book jacket.
  At the birth of her first grandchild, Robinson's fight for climate change became deeply personal. Her travels led 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. Now she presents a stirring manifesto on one of the most pressing humanitarian issues of our time, and a lucid, affirmative, and well-argued case for hope.-- adapted from jacket.
  "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."--Dust jacket.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9781632869289 hardcover
  1632869284 hardcover
  9781632869302 electronic book
  
• Contents:Understanding climate justice
  Learning from lived experience
  The accidental activist
  Vanishing language, vanishing lands
  A seat at the table
  Small steps towards equality
  Migrating with dignity
  Taking responsibility
  Leaving no-one behind
  Paris : the challenge of implementing.