Books and Thoughts for Global South

Climate change is a big issue: you can ignore it, downplay it, hate it, or try to understand it in order to tacke it
Whether you are a casual reader or a real bookworm, come and join our book club where we will read a whole book together by sharing it (a collective reading method known as ‘arpentage’ in French). We will explain everything when you arrive!
After having read “Braiding Sweetgrass” from Robin Wall Kimerer and “Not the end of the World “from Hannah Ritchie and “How to blow up a pipeline ” from Andreas Malm we propose you three new books.
We will chose one one among these 3 books :
Frontierlands: Britain’s Survival in the Making by Hazel Shetfield
Communities on Britain’s margins, left alone by the centres of power, are boldly rewriting the future, reclaiming and reimagining neglected land and buildings to prepare all of us for the uncertainties ahead. The inspiring new book about Britain’s abandoned and neglected places, the opportunities they present for business and communities, and how they can help us face the challenges of climate change.
Elemental: The New Geography of Climate Change and How We Survive it by Arthur Snell
With over 30 years’ experience in conflict zones and fragile states, Arthur Snell travels from the heat of the Sahel to the Arctic Circle to show how climate change is coinciding with a breakdown in geopolitical order, increasing conflict and economic crises.
Overshoot:How the World Surrendered to Climate Breakdown by Andreas Malm and Wim Carton
The world is on the cusp of one and a half degrees of warming – just the rise it has committed itself to avoiding. Heat at such levels would be intolerable. Even before one and a half, seasons of climate disaster have struck with ever more devastating force, and yet a notion has taken hold that the cause is now lost: the intolerable has become unavoidable. The limit will be overshot – perhaps two degrees as well – and the best we can do is cool down the Earth at some later point, towards the end of the century, by means of technologies not yet proven.
Interested ? Please register at the following address: bookclub@citim.lu