Description: Nuclear war is a far greater immediate threat to humanity's survival than climate change, yet we are in near-total denial. This book puts the issue back to the top of the global agenda.
Brief description:
Mark Lynas is an environmental writer and campaigner whose books have drawn attention to the perils of global warming. He is Vice-Chair of the World Economic Forum's Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies, a Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University's School of Geography and the Environment, and was Climate Advisor to the President of the Maldives from 2009 to 2011.
He has contributed extensively to global media, writing for the Guardian, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and numerous others. He is research lead at the Alliance for Science at the Boyce Thompson Institute, an affiliate of Cornell University, and has co-authored peer-reviewed papers on vaccines, climate and GMOs. He is co-founder of the pro-science environmental campaign network RePlanet, launched in 2021 and now active in 12 countries.Review Quotes:
"Gripping, terrifying and timely, this is a book everyone should read and heed." --George Monbiot
"Staggering, necessary ... Six Minutes to Winter is Lynas's way of smashing the alarm button ... Lynas closes Six Minutes to Winter on this resonant ceremony - so right in its moral soundness and so neat in its poetic symmetry that it made me weep." --Washington Post "The world is shadowed by the risk of nuclear winter, but we tell ourselves it's already spring and the terrifying prospect has passed. It hasn't. Urgent, gripping, and sobering, Six Minutes to Winter is a hair-raising wake-up call." --David Wallace-Wells "A powerful and insightful reminder of the immense responsibilities that come with modern technology. Although many have forgotten about nuclear weapons, we shouldn't" --Charles Oppenheimer "Lynas' fearsome yet humane clarion call should trigger a new era of nuclear disarmament. This should be the opening read of the Heads of Nuclear States book club. Pulverizing physics react with Mark Lynas' poetic soul to deliver a book of unmatched power." --Tom Heap "Six Minutes to Winter offers morbidly compelling descriptions of exactly what it would be like if the Eastern seaboard were hit by a full-on nuclear attack and guess what: it's not great." --Literary Hub "'An unflinching look into the most terrifying threat facing humanity. Everyone needs to know the story Lynas is telling'." --Oliver Bullough, author of Moneyland "Of no surprise to anyone who has read his previous books, Mark Lynas gives a rigorous but understandable overview of one of humanity's biggest threats. Before we can stop nuclear war we need to wake up to the reality of what could happen. Mark Lynas shows us how. Ignore it at your own peril." --Hannah Ritchie, author of Not the End of the World "Moving seamlessly between vivid narrative and sober-minded explanation, Lynas delivers a powerful warning of the continued threat of nuclear disaster. If any book can puncture our passivity towards one of the greatest threats to humanity, it is Six Minutes to Winter." --Yascha Mounk