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Quarterly Essay 94: Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future
- By: Joëlle Gergis
- Narrated by: Joëlle Gergis
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
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In this powerful essay, Joëlle Gergis, a leading climate scientist, depicts the likely future in vivid and credible detail. Working from the science, she discusses the world’s and Australia’s efforts to combat climate change. She outlines how far Australia is from keeping its promises to cut emissions. She takes aim at false solutions and the folly of “adaptation” rather than curbing fossil fuel use.
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On the Highway to Hell with no brakes
- By Robert on 04-09-2024
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Quarterly Essay 94: Highway to Hell: Climate Change and Australia's Future
- Narrated by: Joëlle Gergis
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 2 hrs and 37 mins
- Release date: 03-06-2024
- Language: English
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Chickens
- Their Natural and Unnatural Histories
- By: Janet Lembke
- Narrated by: Katherine Dyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
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Framed by the author’s personal experience with backyard hens, Chickens: Their Natural and Unnatural Histories explores the history of the chicken from its descent from the dinosaurs to the space-age present. En route, Lembke surveys chickens in ancient Greece, the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, the 19th century, and modern times, including the role of chickens in Jewish and Muslim practices. She also investigates the birds’ contributions to science and their jaunty appearances in literature.
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I have a new appreciation for chickens
- By Angela Hansen on 12-02-2023
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Chickens
- Their Natural and Unnatural Histories
- Narrated by: Katherine Dyer
- Length: 7 hrs and 36 mins
- Release date: 23-02-2013
- Language: English
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- By: Richard Lloyd Parry
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
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On 11 March 2011, a massive earthquake sent a 120-foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of Northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than 18,000 people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It was Japan's greatest single loss of life since the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant. And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways.
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Entering an Unknown Reality
- By Pukumahi on 13-05-2023
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Ghosts of the Tsunami
- Death and Life in Japan's Disaster Zone
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 47 mins
- Release date: 26-09-2017
- Language: English
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- By: Susan Stranahan, David Lochbaum, The Union of Concerned Scientists, and others
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
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On March 11, 2011, an earthquake large enough to knock the earth from its axis sent a massive tsunami speeding toward the Japanese coast and the aging and vulnerable Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power reactors. Over the following weeks, the world watched in horror as a natural disaster became a man-made catastrophe: fail-safes failed, cooling systems shut down, nuclear rods melted.
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Nuclear or Climate Armageddon
- By Anonymous User on 18-08-2021
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Fukushima: The Story of a Nuclear Disaster
- Narrated by: Jonathan Todd Ross
- Length: 12 hrs and 4 mins
- Release date: 11-02-2014
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind
- Electrification and Community Renewal
- By: Saul Griffith
- Narrated by: Saul Griffith
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
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Griffith paints an inspiring yet practical picture of empowered local communities acting collectively when it comes to renewable energy, and benefiting financially. He considers both equity and security – an end to dependence on foreign oil, for instance. He explores the rejuvenation of regional Australia, as well as the rise of a new populist movement driven by Australian women. And he explodes once and for all the trees v. jobs binary. This is an electrifying essay about building a better world, one community at a time.
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Pragmatic and inspiring
- By Patrick GW Smith on 22-08-2023
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Quarterly Essay 89: The Wires That Bind
- Electrification and Community Renewal
- Narrated by: Saul Griffith
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 28-03-2023
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero
- Australia's Energy Transition
- By: Alan Finkel
- Narrated by: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
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The world is overheating, and despite good intentions and significant efforts, emissions increase nearly every year. The challenge is immense, but there are solutions. In this lucid, inspiring essay, Alan Finkel maps Australia’s path forward. He explains the solar and wind revolution and addresses the challenge of intermittent supply. He introduces hydrogen, the energy hope of the future. He traces the rise and rise of the electric car. He shows how we can build a zero-emissions world.
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A great theory, told as if it were true
- By Kindle Customer on 05-04-2021
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Quarterly Essay 81: Getting to Zero
- Australia's Energy Transition
- Narrated by: Lewis Fitz-Gerald
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 4 hrs and 9 mins
- Release date: 22-03-2021
- Language: English
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Mother of God
- An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
- By: Paul Rosolie
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
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For fans of The Lost City of Z, Walking the Amazon, and Turn Right at Machu Picchu comes naturalist and explorer Paul Rosolie’s extraordinary adventure in the uncharted tributaries of the Western Amazon - a tale of discovery that vividly captures the awe, beauty, and isolation of this endangered land and presents an impassioned call to save it.
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wonderful book displaying true nature
- By Anonymous User on 21-01-2024
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Mother of God
- An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
- Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
- Length: 11 hrs and 27 mins
- Release date: 01-07-2014
- Language: English
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Backcountry Lawman
- True Stories from a Florida Game Warden
- By: Bob H. Lee, Gary R. Mormino - foreword, Raymond Arsenault - foreword
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
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With 30 years of backcountry patrol experience in Florida, Bob Lee has lived through incidents of legend, including one of the biggest environmental busts in Florida history. His fascinating memoir reveals the danger and the humor in the unsung exploits of game wardens.
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another great adventure by a Game Warden
- By Andrew on 13-05-2015
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Backcountry Lawman
- True Stories from a Florida Game Warden
- Narrated by: Jeremy Arthur
- Length: 7 hrs and 38 mins
- Release date: 07-11-2014
- Language: English
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The Hidden Half of Nature
- The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
- By: David R. Montgomery, Anne Bikle
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
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A riveting exploration of how microbes are transforming the way we see nature and ourselves - and could revolutionize agriculture and medicine. Prepare to set aside what you think you know about yourself and microbes. Good health - for people and for plants - depends on Earth's smallest creatures. The Hidden Half of Nature tells the story of our tangled relationship with microbes and their potential to revolutionize agriculture and medicine, from garden to gut.
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Fantastic book!
- By Anonymous User on 03-03-2022
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The Hidden Half of Nature
- The Microbial Roots of Life and Health
- Narrated by: LJ Ganser
- Length: 10 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 23-12-2015
- Language: English
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
- A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
- By: Linda Åkeson McGurk
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children.
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Interesting book, robotic narration
- By Celeste on 15-01-2019
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
- A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 03-10-2017
- Language: English
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The Insect Crisis
- The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
- By: Oliver Milman
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
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In The Insect Crisis, acclaimed journalist Oliver Milman dives into the torrent of recent evidence that suggests this kaleidoscopic group of creatures is suffering the greatest existential crisis in its remarkable 400-million-year history. What is causing the collapse of the insect world?
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Read to the end for heartening.
- By From jj: Herrewith my most abject apologies for my scathing review of my vermiHut Plus 5 Worm Farm.It is ME who is here to make my own aabject apology.It is perfectly as specified ... _I_ assembled it incorrectly. on 15-03-2022
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The Insect Crisis
- The Fall of the Tiny Empires That Run the World
- Narrated by: James Lailey
- Length: 10 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 27-01-2022
- Language: English
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The Soil Will Save Us
- How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
- By: Kristin Ohlson
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
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In The Soil Will Save Us, journalist and bestselling author Kristin Ohlson makes an elegantly argued, passionate case for "our great green hope"—a way in which we can not only heal the land but also turn atmospheric carbon into beneficial soil carbon—and potentially reverse global warming. Her discoveries and vivid storytelling will revolutionize the way we think about our food, our landscapes, our plants, and our relationship to Earth.
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Great read
- By Ha Blackstock on 17-06-2018
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The Soil Will Save Us
- How Scientists, Farmers, and Ranchers Are Tending the Soil to Reverse Global Warming
- Narrated by: Dina Pearlman
- Length: 7 hrs and 35 mins
- Release date: 18-03-2014
- Language: English
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Out of the Wreckage
- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
- By: George Monbiot
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
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A toxic ideology rules the world of extreme competition and individualism. It misrepresents human nature, destroying hope and common purpose. Only a positive vision can replace it, a new story that re-engages people in politics and lights a path to a better world. George Monbiot shows how new findings in psychology, neuroscience and evolutionary biology cast human nature in a radically different light: as the supreme altruists and co-operators.
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Very powerful, very practical
- By Huge Ackman on 10-07-2018
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Out of the Wreckage
- A New Politics for an Age of Crisis
- Narrated by: George Monbiot
- Length: 5 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 12-12-2017
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse
- Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future
- By: Judith Brett
- Narrated by: Judith Brett
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
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Australia is a wealthy nation with the economic profile of a developing country - heavy on raw materials and low on innovation and skilled manufacturing. Once we rode on the sheep’s back for our overseas trade; today we rely on cartloads of coal and tankers of LNG. So must we double down on fossil fuels, now that COVID-19 has halted the flow of international students and tourists? Or is there a better way forward, which supports renewable energy and local manufacturing?
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A sharply intelligent essay
- By Ryan G. on 15-08-2020
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Quarterly Essay 78: The Coal Curse
- Resources, Climate and Australia’s Future
- Narrated by: Judith Brett
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 3 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 22-06-2020
- Language: English
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- By: James Lovelock
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
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In this classic work that continues to inspire its many fans, James Lovelock deftly explains his idea that life on Earth functions as a single organism. Written for the non-scientist, Gaia is a journey through time and space in search of evidence with which to support a new and radically different model of our planet. In contrast to conventional belief that living matter is passive in the face of threats to its existence, the book explores the hypothesis that the Earth's living matter - air, ocean, and land surfaces - forms a complex system that has the capacity to keep the Earth a fit place for life.
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Gaia: A New Look at Life on Earth
- Narrated by: Gary Telles
- Length: 8 hrs and 20 mins
- Release date: 06-05-2013
- Language: English
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Exile and Pride
- Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
- By: Eli Clare
- Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
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First published in 1999, the groundbreaking Exile and Pride is essential to the history and future of disability politics. Eli Clare's revelatory writing about his experiences as a white disabled genderqueer activist/writer established him as one of the leading writers on the intersections of queerness and disability and permanently changed the landscape of disability politics and queer liberation.
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Exile and Pride
- Disability, Queerness, and Liberation
- Narrated by: Maxwell Glick
- Length: 7 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 31-03-2016
- Language: English
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye
- Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock
- By: Anna Krien
- Narrated by: Danielle Carter
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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The Great Barrier Reef is dying. Extreme weather is becoming all too familiar. And the Coalition government is divided and paralysed. In this vivid, urgent essay, Anna Krien explores the psychology and politics of a warming world.
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Brilliant
- By Sarah Collins on 05-12-2017
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Quarterly Essay 66: The Long Goodbye
- Coal, Coral and Australia's Climate Deadlock
- Narrated by: Danielle Carter
- Series: Quarterly Essays
- Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 13-06-2017
- Language: English
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- By: Dick Russell, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. - introduction
- Narrated by: Joel Richards - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
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The science is overwhelming; the facts are in. The planet is heating up at an alarming rate and the results are everywhere to be seen. Yet, as time runs out, climate progress is blocked by the men who are profiting from the burning of the planet: energy moguls like the Koch brothers and Exxon Mobil CEO Rex Tillerson. Powerful politicians like Senators Mitch McConnell and Jim Inhofe, who receive massive contributions from the oil and coal industries. Most of these men are too intelligent to truly believe that climate change is not a growing crisis.
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Rubbish book with absolutely nothing to do with the apocalypse.
- By Anonymous User on 08-11-2022
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Horsemen of the Apocalypse
- The Men Who are Destroying Life on Earth - and What It Means for Our Children
- Narrated by: Joel Richards - foreword
- Length: 7 hrs and 11 mins
- Release date: 03-07-2017
- Language: English
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Too Much Magic
- Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
- By: James Howard Kunstler
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
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James Howard Kunstler's critically acclaimed and best-selling The Long Emergency, originally published in 2005, quickly became a grassroots hit, going into nine printings in hardcover. Kunstler's shocking vision of our post-oil future caught the attention of environmentalists and business leaders alike, and stimulated widespread discussion about our dependence on fossil fuels and our dysfunctional financial and government institutions.
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Too Much Magic
- Wishful Thinking, Technology, and the Fate of the Nation
- Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
- Length: 10 hrs and 13 mins
- Release date: 04-05-2015
- Language: English
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Interview with Michael Crichton
- By: Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Beth Anderson
- Length: 19 mins
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Best-selling author Michael Crichton talks with Audible's Publisher Beth Anderson about his latest book, State of Fear. In this interview, Crichton explains how he came to rethink common wisdom about global warming. In the three year process of writing and researching the book, Crichton witnessed firsthand how difficult it can be to unearth scientific truth in a heavily politicized atmosphere. He warns against fanaticism and explains why a healthy skepticism is imperative in these fearful times.
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Interview with Michael Crichton
- Narrated by: Beth Anderson
- Length: 19 mins
- Release date: 21-12-2004
- Language: English
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